Instrumental Lesson Diary

3^rd November – This was one of my first music lessons so we just learnt the basics and my teacher tried to start to teach me how to play the bass and where all of the notes are and taught me how to find the notes.

10^th November – In this lesson I carried on being taught how to find the notes and this is starting to help me a lot when reading tabs and when I need to play in general. I think i can nearly find all the notes very easily now.

17^th November – My instrumental teacher tried to teach me how to play slapstick bass which I found difficult but he said it takes practice and that I will get there in the end.

24^th November – My teacher this lesson showed me how to read a tab and also we started to learn the start of this tab he gave me.

1^st December – In this lesson I started to learn the music my teacher has given me and also we started to talk about what other song I would like to play and if he can help me start to learn what I need to learn for my rehearsal.

8^th December – This lesson I started to get better at the music he gave me as I have started to play it at a higher tempo now which mean I can now play in the way it’s meant to be played which is a lot higher and faster tempo and I need to learn how to play the whole thing through smoothly without messing up.

15^th December – This was my final lesson of the year but during it I had some difficulties, while playing at a much faster tempo the beat got too quick for me to play and I had to slow it right back down again. This meant I was playing it a lot smoother but at the same time not how it was meant to be played.

5^th January – My first lesson of the year and over Christmas I had been practicing my bass a lot so I now have the whole of the piece my teacher has been trying to teach me polished and also at the right tempo so I played it all through for him and he told me it was very good so he said we would move on next lesson.

12^th January – As my teacher said last lesson we started a new piece of music this lesson called progressive rock and we started to learn a part of that. The part we learnt was fairly easy so I learnt it in about 15 mins then I just looped it round until the end of the lesson.