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Vanessa Gerasimow
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January 27th, 2026
Today we talked about pick thicknesses, guitar string types, keys, the circle of fifths, and other interesting details.
Then we talked about switching between chords by changing as few fingers as possible. When switching to A minor, it might be easier to learn if you get to it from the E minor.
We added C, A, and D as well.
Feel free to add your name to the "waiting list" on my site if you want to take a makeup lesson sometime when you're in Montreal.
January 20th, 2026
This was Vanessa's first week, we learned the names of the parts of the guitar, how to tune (basics with E A D G B E) and then three chords. We learned E minor, G, and A minor. We then strummed through them with two different strum patterns. First we did DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN, and then we did DOWN DOWN DOWN-UP DOWN.