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Guitar 101: Advice For Every Beginner Guitarist! An Essential Guide For Beginners.

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Course Expectation

      1:54

    • 2.

      Identify Your End Goal

      8:22

    • 3.

      Understand Beats

      6:01

    • 4.

      Understand Guitar

      4:07

    • 5.

      Get to Know Music

      1:38

    • 6.

      Identify Your Bad Habit - Pt1

      6:44

    • 7.

      Identify Your Bad Habit - Pt2

      8:46

    • 8.

      Class Project

      5:09

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Teaching yourself guitar and learning online could be frustrating. In this course, everything will be explained in the simplest language, without the jargon! This essential guide is meant to help you learn at your own pace and identify the things that you can do better.

Try to fall in love with the process of learning and improving with this course, perfect for all passionate musicians who want to share their guitar journey with me. You don't need any fancy gadgets, all you need for this course is a guitar of your choice (acoustic, classical, electric guitar). 

Enroll in this course now and get your engines started! Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or suggestions on how I can improve my classes.

Thank you for choosing me, good luck, and have fun learning! ❤️

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I'm Nola, a guitarist and musician with 10 years of playing experience. Was once called a prodigy cause I've obtained more than 4 years of teaching experience when I was in my late teens. Music is a big part of my life, there's something about the way music makes me feel that can't be described in words.

When I'm not teaching, I'm a big fan of books and crystals. Due to lockdown, I've been constantly trying new things and in the process, I've fallen in love with painting and baking. It seems like I'm trying to market myself as this versatile gal, but the truth is I have trouble sitting still and do nothing.

I'm always pumped to answer all of your questions, so please feel free to get in touch using discussions on Skillshare.‍

 

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1. Course Expectation: Welcome to the guitar, one-on-one instructor, nola. This course is designed for complete beginners, was a little bit lost, but that's okay. I'm here to guide you. And here are some of the things that you can expect at the end of this course. The first one is you will get to know your instruments that you are holding a little bit better and also have a clearer direction of what the end of the rope is going to work because I'm pretty sure you're spending, you're investing your time learning all these instruments. You want something at the end. Hence, why I'm here to guide you to have a clearer picture of what your end of the road is going to look like. And the third one is very important, which is identifying your bad habits for beginner, especially you are a beginner that's learning online. You will develop that habit along the way. So it's very important to identify all these bad habits. So it doesn't demotivate you because sometime that habit can kill you, especially when you're playing this new instrument, they just get your hands-on. And less the more smallest, most important one. The last one. I know the previous slide I say it's important, but this one is also quite important to identify what's important for you and what is not so important for you. So I'm pretty sure as a beginner who's learning online, you bombard it with all these messages, all these things that you need to learn and all this stuff. You were not so sure which one you should start with and which one you should just ignore. It's not so important for you to learn. This course is designed just for that. If it's for you, keep watching. 2. Identify Your End Goal: Welcome to the first course, identifying your end goal. So let's start off with this. Guitar has a lot of variation, actually, most of the string instrument has lots of variations. So the one that I'm holding right now, it's a classical guitar. There's acoustic guitar, there is electric guitar, bass guitar. Then you can delete. It looks about the same, just a little bit smaller. But which one is the right one for you? I think that's the $1 million question. So I'm going to get in detail one by one and explain to you what do you need if that's what you are going for. The first one is if your end goal is to just to play for leisure, most probably, I would say 80% of people who's watching this, they just want to play for leisure. That's completely fine. If you do want to play for leisure, I do suggest you acoustic guitar. They look something like this. They are, instead of nylon string, there are still sharing. The screen is a little bit different. The fingerboard, the neck wise is a little bit different. The sound, it produced a very different compared to classical guitar. So if you just want to play for leisure, then acoustic guitar is direct checks for you. And you should start with cots. For example. Major chord Triads, those are more simpler ones. Start there and gradually move on to a little bit harder cards like barcodes and all that type of stuff. And playing for leisure, the big part is singing and strong. You want to be able to sing and strumming guitar, I would suggest you, if you do and if your angle is just to play and same for leisure, then you need a acoustic guitar. Electric guitar also works fine, but you would need to buy a lot more gear like the M and other stuff. So I would suggest acoustic guitar and start with very simple chords like major chords, minor chords, and try It's basically other triads caught. If you do want to play for leisure, but sing and strumming is not really your type of thing. You don't really like singing. You just like to be able to play guitar, then that's what we call finger style. So I will suggest you to the first step is the same. You buy an acoustic guitar for you to practice. And you have to learn how to read. Look like this. It's just basically number on a string. So there's six strings in every single tab, and the number on top of it represent the frets. So it's not so hard for beginners is quite easy to digest compared to traditional musical notes. If you're playing for leisure, I will suggest you to start. The second end goal. If your goal is to start with songwriting, like you're learning guitar because you want to try to write a song, then I would say it's a very similar process. I would suggest you acoustic guitar as well, because this cheaper or classical guitar works the same. But I will say acoustic guitar is the best for songwriting as well. The process is about saying, you have to learn to tap your phone, a simple card. You don't need complicated courts to write music. You just need symbol called the trials that I just mentioned as basically a similar process. But on top of that, you have to ask yourself some, a little bit more creative questions like, what type of songwriter Do you want to be? Do you want to be RMB songwriter? You want to be pop songwriter? Or do you want to be hip-hop writer? Or do you want to be jess right here, for example? So usually each genre of music have very, they use very, very different costs. For example, just caught and popcorn pop song quote, I mean popcorn pop song card. They don't really use it in the same scenario. For example, pop song, we use more major and minor chords. But just so we use a lot of dominant seven chord. Let me avoid that jargon. What I'm saying is the cut that different. So if you do plan to be a jazz singer songwriter, that I will suggest you to start looking into dominant seven card caught down a little bit more complicated than usual. If your angle is to become a classical guitarist, like myself, I'm a classic retirees. I will suggest you of course, to buy classical guitar. Classical guitar, half nylon string instead of steel strings. So their body is quite similar. Acoustic guitar comes in a lot of variation, but classical usually just look like. If that's the route that you want to go for, the first thing that you need to learn. I wouldn't say it's the first thing you need to learn. The things that are quite important for you to learn. How to read. Music would not like this. Instead of ten, it will save you a lot of time and it will help you. Along the way is a universal language for classical instrument. You need a universal language. So this is the universal language. But why can't you just retire? Because if you just read, write, only guitarists will understand it. For example, pianos they wouldn't understand tear. A piano doesn't have six strings, are Fred's. They don't musical tradition and basically not like this. Like a universal language for every single musician to understand. And it's quite crucial for classical guitarist as well. The next end goal that I came up with, expand your horizon. If your endgame is just to expand your horizon, for example, your earlier pianist, you just want to pick up a new instruments. So you picked up guitar instead. I would suggest you, because you already have the music base, right? So I will suggest you to really look into guitar. Like what's the difference between guitar and the instrument that before? What's the difference? How do they work? And it's going to say the journey. It's gonna be a little bit easier for you because you already have that music knowledge base. So all you have to do is identify the node. Get to know this guitar, gets to know how it works. Then you'll be fine. The last end goal. If you want to play in the band, instead, I have a lot of acoustic students. They came to me. They were like, I have a school band, but I don't know what that say that. Sorry. I don't know what my mates were saying. They use a lot of jargons that they don't understand. So it's very important if you want to play in a band and especially communicate with other musicians, is very important for you to learn a lot of music theory. Not just that. Music theory helps with a lot of things. If you are just normal player, music theory will help you tremendously. But is it the most important thing? Is that the step one that you need to go through, I wouldn't say it's a step one. I would say is step 56 like that. But if your angle is to play in a band, then yes, you will meet to start music theory immediately so you can communicate musician more efficiently. Especially when it's playing in the band, as quite tricky. So you have to align with other people, what they're doing and all this stuff. So music theory is definitely so much more crucial. 3. Understand Beats : So the second advice that I would say, if you are really just starting out, if, if you already have the music knowledge, you can go ahead and skip this one. But if you're just starting out, like your belly listened to music, this is the first instrument that you are holding. Then I strongly, strongly suggest you to get better at p. It doesn't require a lot of effort for this. You just need to turn on my song clipped to it. If you're clapping doesn't really match the song. It means your beat. You're clapping, your baits are wrong. But if we match really well, then it means is correct. Why do you need to get better at bit is because if b is a very essential part of music, if you can't really understand beat, you can't really understand the music. And most of the time, for example, I'm pretty sure a lot of people, they go to Google, they want to sing this song. They want to see an sram this Sunday. For example. Perfect by assuring cards. And then they go to the page and then they feel like whatever they're strumming, pressing the right card, but they feel or whatever they're strumming doesn't really sound anything like the original song. Most probably that's because the beat don't really know how this beets were. This way, you can't really mesh well with whatever you are singing. There are multiple types of beat, which I will explain later. But let's move on to the second that I want to say first, which is tried to listen to more variety of songs as well. So don't just go for a pop song, pops on, pops on because pop song, they have a very specific way to craft this pop genre. You can go to eighties music like don't hurry, like Footloose. You can listen to tons of variety of sol, genre, RV jazz, and just try to feel the beat, tap it, see how it sounds like and other type of stuff. Now let's digest all this time signature or in a more layman term, it's called beats per bar. So every single song you have to identify what's the beats per bar. So I'm just going to start with time signature that are most common, which is 44. It looks like this. So 44 is very, very common. Especially in pop song, is one of the most common types of leisure. What does it mean is you have to look at the number on top. If number on top says For it means is four beats per bar. So instead of counting 123451234512345, you're counting 12341234123444. They have this very smooth sale type of feeling. It just sounds smooth. I don't know how to explain this, but it just sounds like it's very smooth to your ear. Once this example. Say that, but it feels just a little bit big. And now 341234, our song on the radio, but it does sound and say 1234. And let's move on to another time signature, which is quite common. Assault with 3434 have this very, very light type of feeling, which is from job to job. So a song is tree for, I think some people think that a physical things they find, I debit. It has this type of feeling that this type of cell also mean three beats per bar. So instead of counting 12341234, you're counting 1231, 2312. And now let's move on to the third most common types of nature, which is six. So 68 sounds a lot like 44. But you will feel like there's rhyming doesn't match the song. For his time signatures 68, they always emphasize on the fourth beat. So it's 123456123456123456. What's an example of 60? Let me think. When I was younger, Lagarde cry occurs said he broke his own heart and I watch as he tried to stab 123456. It has the type of feeling once you digest, once you know how each song sounds like and what's the types of insurance is much easier for you to start with your strumming pattern. And when do you need to change the color, all that type of stuff. 4. Understand Guitar: Now this, I know this title sounds a little bit like may have, but this is the most common thing that I face when I'm dealing with students. They don't really understand the instrument they are holding. So I'm not just saying understand how to build this thing. I'm saying, where's everything and why does it work the way they do? So usually when new student comes in the class, I always ask them to make friends with the instruments that you're holding. What does it mean is that don't stranger, hold it like you're comfortable with it. Experiment, what's the most comfortable way for you to see? But if you don't know what's the right way right position to sit, you can check out my other costs that I've put out. But the most important things you have to make friends with it. You cannot like holding your guitar and the guitar is slipping off your thigh. That doesn't really make sense. You have to be more comfortable holding it with the right position by the way. And you have to know how does it work. This is the lowest string and this is the highest open string. I mean, and as you go lower, that each fret, um, it's gonna sound higher and higher, higher and higher. And also another thing that you really need to understand as unlike piano, where every single key, for example, E, this open string, e, you only can find it in one place. On piano, the cell, exactly like that. But for guitar, it does not work like that. So if this is the open string e, you can find the same node, the sound the same on second shrink the threat. They sound exactly the same. And also as well on the third string, these all sound the same. And you can find it here somewhere as well. You have to understand this is how guitar, in order for you to have a smooth steel from their own. If you're a stranger with the guitar that you are holding, you're not used to holding it. You're uncomfortable doing whatever you're doing, then it's not going to be so much more harder. So actually make friends with it. And it's gonna be so much more easier for you. The next part is you have to understand the gifts as well. So for example, this is a Cabo and what does it do? A Kippah raises the key of a song. So instead of playing barcodes, you can just kept for it and play open. Triads caught like usual, erases the key of a song. So for example, if you feel like the song they're singing is way too low, it's not for you. It's okay. Just we'd probably kept, bought and put it at the fret that you desire. Depends on how many key you want to erase so you can identify which Fred do you want to put it on? And also another gear that it's quite important is tuner. What does the tuner do? How do you use it? And if you're not so sure how to use it, I have a course on that as well. You can take a look. And when it comes to electric guitar, the guitar, the whole thing is the electric guitar. Then you're going to have to understand a little bit more because some of the electric guitar, they have not been part. But part. You will see some notes here and there. You have to understand what all the nuts do and what all the EMS as well. If you have an M with your electric guitar, is to understand what the m does. Raise a treble, how Theresa based things like that. 5. Get to Know Music: The next step, this is quite simple. It's quite general. So this is going to be a short video for this one is to understand music. I'm not saying that you need to understand the whole music theory or whatever. It's not that important. It is important that to a certain extent, but it's not like super-duper important. I'm saying you need to understand what makes music. Music. Music is made out of melody. It's made out of B. Once it combined two, you have music. It's very important too. Learn the basic stuff as well, especially the language. So if you're learning acoustic guitar, you want to play finger style, then you need to learn the tap. And if you're a classical player like me, then you need to learn the notes. It's very important because everything you learn stuff from the language, even though you're learning now, I'm speaking English, that is why you understand it. Because without the language, you don't have these things that combine you guys together. There's something missing there. I will say learning the language is very important. And also understand music in terms of genre. What do you like? You have to understand yourself a little bit more as well. What's the genre that you like? What's the genre that you should explore? And really narrow down to what you like, because there's no right or wrong when it comes to music. 6. Identify Your Bad Habit - Pt1: This is the most important part out of the whole course. So you can skip others, but please don't skip this one for your own sake. So bad habit when you're playing a musical instrument can be really, really deadly. It might be the reason why you're de-motivated. It might be the reason why you are not. It doesn't sound good and makes you like on that. This is not meant for me. No. It's just some bad habit that you need. Later on this video, I will show you some bad habits as well. But for now, I'm just going to tell you why is this important? Every time after you practice, you have to really ask yourself this question. Are you doing this because it's right? Are you doing this because it's the right thing to do? Or I doing this because this is a comfortable thing to do. So getting playing a new instrument in general that you've never touched before can be really, really overwhelming. And it's really hard to do the right thing all the time. When you're, for example, your right hand is not strong enough. You just keep doing going back and doing the wrong thing. And then it will just demoed the way from their own and everything just go down here from there on. It's very important to identify a bad habit and try your best to fix it. And here are some of the bad habits. But let's start with left pen first. So here are a compilation of bad habits that I see. Typically from beginners. I've been teaching for many years now, seven years to be exact. So here are some compilation of the most common mistakes that my students made. So the first one is always with a finger tip. Like this. Makes sure the knuckles is up. And always makes sure there's space as well. Don't stick your hand like this. Always makes sure there's space right here. Fingertips and knuckles up. For my students who are left-handed, they have no problems doing this. But for my students who are right-handed, they get left hand is not as strong. So they tend to do this with the knuckle down. If you play with the knuckle down, this is where all the flats sound come in. But if I saw something like this, not a clear sound, all the things that you're playing supposed to sound like this, loud and clear. But if it's not it's not like this, then you have to check what is wrong. Okay. My NaCl is not put it up and make sure you press with finger tip as well. Because if not, if you're not pressing the finger tip, if you're pressing like this for example, you're, I don't know how to say this. This part of your hand will be blocking another street, for example, this is the string, right? This proud of him would be blocking it. And that's where the cell come in as well. So to avoid it, tried to play it with a fingertip. I would suggest my students, every time after you play up the practice, you take a look at your fingertips. So if you can see my fingertip now, QC the line of that string. So if that line is on the fingertip, then you are correct, you're completely fine. But if you see the line on here instead of here, then you need to try your best to make sure your knuckles is up like this. Instead of like this. Always makes sure the knuckles is up using your fingertip. So this part of the finger doesn't block the other string. Then the next one is, don't play too far from the fret. So if you guys don't know yet, this is called fret, f RET, this thing right here are called fret. So you have to go as close as you can, but don't go over it. This is what it's going to sound like. If you go over it. It's going to sound a little bit thick and a little bit fast sound as well. This is just perfect. Seat very close to the fret, but not over it. So this is what it's going to sound like. Very low, fruit clear. But if you're too far from the fret, this is what I call literally a country away. This is way too far. It's going to sound like this. Can you hear the type of style? Yeah, That's this because your fingers are too far from the front. Go as close as much as possible, but don't go over it. And the third most common thing that I, most common BET habit that I see my students is your thumb. Your thumb should be always behind breadth to like, let me show it like this. It should be like this, but not here. So if you're in front of me, you won't be able to see my thumb. That's the most ideal way of putting your thumb always behind. So when you press you have space and with your thumb at the right place, you don't restrict your movement as well. So imagine if a thumb is here, your finger, or restrict it to displace, see how my fingers cannot move. But if the thumb is a little bit out, you can move freely. See I can go so much more further. It doesn't restrict my fingers to do their job. And then just imagine this thumb like a pillar of your home. And even though no matter how you ran over your Home Hub, you remodel your home. You don't move the pillar unless you switch to another position, then that makes sense. So if you're in the first position, your thumb should always be behind friends who don't move it too much. The movie like this and like this don't angularly like that, don't include like this. Try to stable that. Just don't move it. Yeah. Try your best not to move it. But understand some court, for example, D you might need to angle lit up a little bit, but you don't necessarily need to move here, move there that it's not necessary. And remember, it's behind fret to not fret one nut fruit tree. 7. Identify Your Bad Habit - Pt2: Let's move on to right-hand curses. Quite hard for me to show it like this. Yeah, you won't be able to see my hands. I'm going to put this, this is the host was how your guitar just disclaimer. Okay, so the, one of the most common things that I see in students, beginner student S right after they plot rate. They put their fingers like this. Let your fingers can prepare to put it back, but don't put it back. Like your fingers can be no front of it, but don't immediately put it back after you pluck it. This is going to mute this out. So instead of letting this sound goal, but the moment you put it, but you don't want to sound like that. You want the sound to go continuous is some proper. So try your best not to put it back up the word this is I understand why they put it back off immediately after that is because they want to prepare for the next card, prepare for the next time they want to pluck that string, but you can prepare it in front. Don't put it back. I saw out of tune. And then the next common mistake, common bad habits that I see is your thumb and index finger ideally supposed to be like this? So if someone is sitting in front of you, they won't be able to see your nails, especially this index, middle and ring finger nail, they won't be able to see it. It should be something like this. Thumb always forward. If it's like this, Not really. It it will sound as clear as it should be. Let me show different. This is a bad example. This is the right example. Can you hear the difference? Because a lot of them, they try to pluck it like this as well. You see, from the front angle you can see my fingernails. That's not the ideal way to play. Dumb. Always forward where you have this type of looking finger. So something like this would be very, very ideal. Not like this, not like this, like this. Then the next common mistake that I see in students is the plucking direction. I'm going to like this for this. So usually when you plot the direction supposed to be like this. So you're plucking that up instead. You're moving your finger up instead. The wrong example would be you plug-in your finger in front. So it sounds like this. This is what I call an explosion. Voices sounds like instead of thumb, It's just like sorry, like this. So what happened is you're plugging in front. You plucking this direction instead of this direction. So always thought like this. Instead of like, this will create my explosion sound. Especially if you're using acoustic guitar, you can either create sound like this. So make sure if you're using your thumb, the direction is down. This direction. You see where my finger goes afterward? It's not supposed to be here. It's supposed to be done for this tree finger is supposed to be up front. So this is technically how you stop yourself from making first song, an explosion noises. Then the next two points that I'm going to mention, a snore, night, left-hand or right-hand specific. It's more like in general. So one thing that I see in students is when they are beginner, they are very used to stopping in-between coats, for example, with age, San Fransisco caught, they use such a long time to switch. But even though after they are not beginner anymore, there are still so used to stopping the stops are. So one way to fix this is no worries. I have a very good way that I guarantee this would work. No matter what happened. With your left hand, your right hand just keep strumming. So when the music stops is very obvious that you do something wrong. No matter what happened. You just your right hand just keep going. Strum down, down, down, down. And then if there's something wrong that you're pressing your adjusted afterward, but your right hand doesn't stop. Let me show you an example. This is a bad example first. Oh, yeah, it's, it's running slowly. And then you wait for you until you press all the G chord, then you're stuck. You can't hear the stops in between. That's what makes people think all of this people can play. But that's not the case. You can play. It's just that. Your right hand me to keep trimming no matter what happens to your left. So just keeps me just keeps dropping slowly. So sometimes you might press their own for it. For example, let me share an example. Starting with C card. Okay, some things are wrong. Then you just slowly edges a finger back to where it's supposed to be. So to conclude, whatever I just say, the main thing you need to do is, no matter what happened to your left or your right hand, your right hand, just keep doing whatever they supposed to do. Moving on to the next point that I see that's quite common with other students as they tend to find excuse for themselves. Like, yeah, my left hand is too short. I'm not using I don't really use my left hand. I don't really do anything with my left hand. My left hand is not strong enough to press. Now, you're actually your left hand. It's completely fine. Do Notify excuse for herself. So just one thing though. Do note that your left hand fingernails not supposed to be too long. This is kinda long. Actually. I usually don't keep it as long. Usually you can't see the white part of my meal. I usually don't keep it up because if your fingers are two, nails are too long, right? You tend to press it like this. And you know what happened when you press Select this? Yes, the first sound is going to come. So make sure your fingers are too long so we can press it with your fingertip. And if you really do feel like you have hard time pressing bar chord. If you really, really do feel like your left hand doesn't have enough strength and all the stuff I would suggest you to get. I don't know what I don't know what's that thing called? It looks like this. I will insert picture here. Just get this thing and keep doing it with your left hand. Use the left hand more and practice guitar more. Anything that helps moles with the left-hand, I'm going to say it's guitar, no joke. It trains your left hand so much more that anything that you can buy out there. So just practice more. Turn your left and a little bit more. And usually after training, mentoring, after practicing, this part of your head will feel a little bit sore. That's completely normal. That's completely fine. It means you're training your muscles just like when you go to G and the next day your body just feel sore. The same thing is the same with your left hand. And usually for guitarist like that have been playing for a long time like me. Usually their left hand is bigger than the array. No joke, seriously. Let me show you can see, yeah, my left hand is slightly bigger than my right. This, this happens to all give terrorists this just to show you that practice makes all the different. As long as you practice. Just handy thing to adjust to the practice environment. I don't know what to call it. Your finger is going to compensate that your fingers are gonna become stronger, longer. Another type of stuff, so all you need is actually practice. 8. Class Project: Let's talk about class projects. I have attached document file in the resource tab. So this document file is for you to keep track with your practice and what you have achieved that day. And I also attached a song, trader by Olivia Rodrigo. The reason I chose this as the song is quite easy because the whole song only use 55 quads. If I'm not mistaken. The cost is repeat and repeat for the wholesale. So the first step that I need you to do is identify your end goal. So what's the end goal of practicing this up? Is it because you want to sing and show them on your own? Or you just want to shop, you don't want to see, that's completely fine? Or is it because you want to play in the band in the future? Maybe afterwards? Nobody knows. So first, identify your ankle and then second, you have to identify the type signature. So if you miss me explaining time signature just now, please go back to the previous costs where I was explaining about beats. You can find the tensile nature death. So just listen to the original song and try to tap the beat and see what, what time signature is it? How many beats per bar for this cell? Basically? And then the third step is you have to practice this song. You have to preface. Remember if the left-hand side, your right hand doesn't stop your head, just keep continue doing their thing. And then afterward, I do want you to kind of record. You can record a video like this or you can recall voice recording. That's completely fine after you record it. Because why I want you to record It's very common. That's what I do is actually a common practice for me. At least. I usually record it because when you're playing, your brain is already handling so much like your left hand is doing this, your right hand is doing that. Your eye is looking at a CT and the lyrics, your brain is already doing so much. Usually, if you still want your brand to listen to your mistake, that's a little bit high. So I will suggest you to record it and listen to it afterwards. So when you are recording, just try to do your best. So after you record, try to identify your bad habits as well. So I also put up tap product question and identify a bad habit. Is it because this song, sung or 40, you make it, There's a lot of fat sound you produce when you play the song? Or is it when you choose the quad is a little bit too slow. And what can you improve with that? What's the solution on that? But not be able to find a solution as one thing. And not be able to listen to what's the mistake, you make it even bigger problem. So it's very, very important for your ears to be trained enough to hear what's wrong with your play. So you really have to know what's wrong with it first in order to come up with the solution, lists the other bad habits and other problems you face, and give yourself a solution if whatever you're facing. I didn't mention it. Just now, you can reach out to me anytime I'm happy to help and then practice it again. Then after you've done all this bad habit, practice it again. Try your best to give yourself some time. After you're done. You feel like, oh, this is quite good. Then you can upload it here with, together with the doc file. And what's the problem you face? What's the problem you fix? And I'm going to show you guys a little bit off sneak pic of how the song is going to sound like just in case. Just in case you need a reference. I'm going to sing until before the car is. So that is all for the class project. I do really look forward to your heart work and reach out to me anytime you have any questions.