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Karter Gregory
Past Notes
March 10th, 2026
We reviewed Body Like a Back Road and Counting Stars, and then added Wine, Beer, Whiskey and Under The Bridge.
We didn't finish the Under the Bridge song.
March 3rd, 2026
Karter felt like he had Fast Car down, so we added Body Like a Back Road (capo on 5 to make it easier), and then Counting Stars, which we hadn't written chords for in his book yet.
February 24th, 2026
We reviewed (and this time I wrote out) the chords for Black Better, and then looked at some other songs to learn.
We tried Golden, Sunflower, Counting Stars, Wake Me Up, and Fast Car, and decided to remove Avicci because it's a little too fast for now.
February 17th, 2026
Karter felt good with Californication, so wanted to add something new. He suggested Country Roads (which is quite easy), so we wrote itout and went through it a couple of times, then added another new one, ACDC, Black Betty.
February 10th, 2026
We continued working on the second section of Highway to Hell, which Karter was feeling a little intimidated by. We kept at it, and he was able to really nail it quite well.
We then added Californication, and briefly went over it (but not in it's entirety)
February 3rd, 2026
We went through Save Your Tears together and then tried Highway to Hell, and did the intro over about 30 times to get the hang of the rests. We saved the second part for next week.
January 27th, 2026
Karter may be missing lessons tonight.
January 20th, 2026
Karter was ready to move on to a new song, as he felt confident in working on Stitches and Heathens on his own.
We looked for a new song, and settled on Save Your Tears by the Weeknd. This required learning a new chord and revisiting a rarer one: D minor and F.
We went through the song a couple of times and then he wanted to have a go with finger picking. I gave him the basics of how to do a finger picking pattern.
January 13th, 2026
Two new songs this week, one he's been doing on his own, Heathens. Then we added Stitches by Shawn Mendes.
January 6th, 2026
Karter's mom Stephanie is sick tonight, so cannot bring him.
December 30th, 2025
Karter decided to keep doing lessons in January, so I booked him to continue at the same spot.
We went through Pumped Up Kicks, and then added Before You Go by Lewis Capaldi.
December 23rd, 2025
Karter is doing really well with his chord changes. We went through them all initially, and then tried working on Riptide, a song he's been learning this week.
We played along with the recording at 60% speed (or thereabouts) but he was struggling a bit with the changes. We tried again without the recording, and then I suggested we look for another song. We tried Foster The People, Pumped Up Kicks, which required learning the A chord.
He was able to get that one up to 90% speed, great job!
December 16th, 2025
Today was Karter's first lesson. We started off with labelling the parts of the instrument.
We then learned the basic strum pattern, down down down-up down
We learned the chords E minor, G, A minor, C, D and cycled between them so that he only had to move a couple of fingers each time.
December 9th, 2025
Karter is unable to come tonight, he's been feeling unwell.