Music – personal learning checklist

AKA why I think I’m bad at music.

• Acoustic Guitar
  • learn to play chords in six major keys without a capo
  • strumming patterns, three each:
    • 4/4
    • 3/4
    • 6/8
  • Finger-style:
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6xSOMdt_2g
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0srLQvAeQU
• Singing
  • vibrato
  • learn how to teach how to sing harmony
  • falsetto
• Bass
  • learn to slap
  • work on chops
    • string switching
    • arpeggios
  • harmonics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZ_1mPOuyk)
  • bass solo pieces
• Piano / keys
  • learn to use a DAW (probably Logic)
  • re-learn scales
  • pieces:
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpOtuoHL45Y
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSHwX2O7j2w
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU8VgS-2hpk
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFHdRkeEnpM
  • stride piano
  • ragtime
  • use jazz in playing
• drums
  • three beats each in:
    • 4/4
    • 3/4
    • 6/8
• Jazz
  • being able to identify up to 11th chords by ear and play them
  • being able to identify all modes by ear and play / use them
  • Learn 25 standards
• Theory
  • line cliches
  • tritone substitutions
  • secondary dominants
  • modal interchange
• Composition
  • write a worship song
  • write a musical
  • write a concerto
  • arrange a classical concerto accompaniment for guitar(s), bass and drums
  • the mom song
  • write lead sheet for “Sight of Spira” duet by ear
  • five a cappella arrangements