Ariella and I got a lot accomplished in her lesson tonight. We started with the warm ups, then we worked on playing rhythms. I taught Ariella a new strumming pattern last class and tonight she was playing it perfectly (well pretty close, anyways!). We practiced the C major scale and we played "Ode to Joy" together, which was sounding very good. We practiced all the chord progressions with the new strumming pattern. Then we worked on songs. We played "Good Riddance" and "Wake me Up When Septembers Ends", which are both improving. We started work on power chords with three new songs: "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day, "I Guess This Is Growing Up" by Blink 182 and, at Ariella's request, "Photograph" by Nickelback. Yes, we fit all that into one hour!
