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In today's Fly On The Wall video we eavesdrop on Neil and his student
Sandy. She had taken lessons from Neil about 30 years ago before
dropping it to raise a child and move to the country to raise horses
as well. She recently wanted to get music back in her life and
contacted him about restarting lessons and getting a new guitar. Neil
happened to have a friend selling a guitar built by Mark Blanchard
that proved to be a great fit for her.
Sandy is the type of student who is fascinated by theory and
understanding all aspects of music. She also loves to read, study, and
memorize facts and details. She has retained pretty good technical
skills so most of our lessons focus on theory. She has always been
good at rote memorization, which got her through medical school and
into a career as a nurse practitioner. She makes diligent notes about
things we discuss and works hard at remembering all the connections. I
really try to get her away from memorizing the details and into
understanding the path they came from. In other words, I want her to
not try to use a photographic approach to remembering what she wrote
down but to understand the formulas that produced her pages of notes.
At the beginning of most lessons we promise to try to get to some
playing but it usually never materializes as she asks great questions.
I am really glad that she is willing to share our time together with
everybody at TG as it is great to be able to hear multiple
explanations of theoretical concepts over and over and from different
backgrounds and directions.
This first video with Sandy is called Chords, Scales& Keys. It seems
somewhat appropriate to tie it in with this week's lessons that
focused on Progressive Rock tunes, as most of these songs were created
by musicians with a very high level of theory.
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