Final post for ukulele studies in Key Approaches in Music Education. Our final class consisted mainly of sharing and performing the tracks and chord progressions we had chosen, containing certain chords from the list required for our exam that we had not yet covered in class. As mentioned earlier, my choice was Help The Poor by B.B. King, a D minor blues with a nice grooving harmonic rhythm throughout. It covers the chords A7, Gm and Dm.
In preparation for the final task, I have been giving myself the small extra challenge to not look at my own self made chord box chart and run through all the root notes in all chord forms, including major, minor, dominant 7th, major 7th and minor 7th. It has also occurred to me that I can make my life so much easier if I focus on running through these chords only the 7 root notes we have been asked to learn, rather than the entire 12 note system. Even though I’ve been taking that extra step so that I can confidently learn to play any of these chords from any root note, it’s a little much to cram this info for this task. Once again, I won’t awkwardly shove a screenshot of my chord box chart into this post, but suffice to say I am confident without those training wheels so to speak.
Stay tuned for my last two posts on the last few contemporary pedagogies and a post on the who you be campaign of content in the first half of this course.
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