It's a family affair on Tuesday nights at the Durham's. Emma(right) had her lesson first. We did our usual routine of warm ups, scales, reading and chords. Then we worked on a Green Day song and a Blink 182 song. Her power chords are starting to sound really good. We finished off by working on the melody for"Yesterday" by The Beatles. Julia was up next. We worked on scales and did some reading. Then we worked on chords and rhythm. Julia's chords are sounding great. I gave her a challenging chord exercise to push her even more. Then we worked on "Basket Case" by Green Day which sounded very good. Their dad Simon was next. We are working mostly on the blues. First, we reviewed the blues scale. Then we played 12 bar blues in the keys of A and E with the turnarounds. The turnaround in E was sounding good. We also practised the blues with bar chords. I taught Simon a new turnaround. We finished off by practicing the unplugged version of "Layla" by Clapton.
