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Private Students

The document outlines the progress and lessons of three private students, Harshit Nimbark, Mansij Madaan, and Priyanshu Choudhary, detailing their work on various songs, scales, and techniques over several dates. Each student is focusing on improving their guitar skills through specific songs and exercises, including improvisation, chord voicings, and transcriptions. The document serves as a record of their learning journey and areas for future development.

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Private Students

The document outlines the progress and lessons of three private students, Harshit Nimbark, Mansij Madaan, and Priyanshu Choudhary, detailing their work on various songs, scales, and techniques over several dates. Each student is focusing on improving their guitar skills through specific songs and exercises, including improvisation, chord voicings, and transcriptions. The document serves as a record of their learning journey and areas for future development.

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PRIVATE STUDENTS

Harshit Nimbark

1. 14/1: isn’t she lovely chords, solo on pink floyd’s ,money’ +


pentatonic and blues scales
2. 22/1: money solo in progress + isn’t she lovely chords
3. 29/1: Money solo almost done.+ suggested ‘layla’ or other
songs from ‘Cream of Clapton’ to work out for guitar.
4. 5/2: worked on some improv ideas with Isn’t She Lovely.
Playing better. Next two weeks: waiting on the world to
change + Something.

Mansij Madaan

1. 21/9: talked about chords and voicings. Gave him Feel Like
Making Love to prepare chords of (in different positions) +
Melody + 3-7 voicings for all chords across the fretboard.
2. 6/10: played through FLML, discussed practicing technique
and transcribing, 7th chord arpeggios in solos and introduced
to drop 2 inversions. How Insensitive for next week.
3. 20/10: Played through HI – chords are good. Work more on
inversions + arpeggios to use through the tune. Discussed
chords and available tensions.
4. 4/11: chords + arpeggios, has to transcribe one chorus of Pat
Martino’s solo, using chord inversions in different contexts
5. 17/11:
6. 2/12: like someone in love chords, melody, bassline, solo
needs to be prepared. Discussed comping specific to styles,
more on chords and inversions.
7. 22/12: basslines, comping in swing style, practicing with
metronome on 2 & 4, soloing over like someone, tenor
madness, symmetrical scales
8. 12/1: pat martino solo needs work – I need to share a
transcription with him. Bass lines in Bb blues + LSIL. Swing
comping. Played through tenor madness – melody, comp,
soloing. Next class – PM solo, transcribe chords of Ghost by
Lianne, new swing tune – ATTYA
9. 6/4- skype lesson. Gave him ‘wave’ for chords +melody _
chord outline practice. Bossa Rhythms.
10.

Priyanshu Choudhary

1. 6/2: 5 positions of the pentatonic scale, major scale positions,


cupid’s dead.
2. 21/2: reviewed scales – they seem OK. Discussed improvising
with pentatonic shapes. Cupid’s dead, 7th chords, 12-bar
blues.
3. 6/3: circle of fifths: add in minor keys, write out major and
minor triads for all 12 keys; give him a solo to work out for
phrasing + ‘Something’, 7th chords review, major scales in
different subdivisions still need work.
4. 21/3: checked triads – had not used flats at all so corrected
that, scales and subdivisions are better, 7 th chords need work.
Somehting – needs to learn chords + solo better, and will
prepare a solo of his own over the same chords.
5. 4/4 – something solo needs work and still has to make his own
solo. Went over triad theory with him once again. New song -
Money.
6.

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