Challenge No.2

Let's learn a new piece which uses every accidentals (sharp, flats and naturals) and it's actually quite easy but fun to play for Everyone.

It's called Gridlock, you can play it at home with the backing track from Youtube: search for Vamoosh Gridlock.

My lesson on Gridlock:

Key signature: no sharp or flats, you will use the natural scale here.

Quite a lot of accidentals, first bar: 3rd note is an F natural, then F-sharp (low 2 then push it up a semitone higher immediately for normal 2)

Second line first bar: same idea, B-flat, B natural (B-flat is a semitone lower than B natural, Low 2, normal 2)

Second line last bar: C-sharp (how would you play C natural? B & C are semtiones, so low 2, now C sharp, we need to play it a semitone higher)

3rd line second bar: let's say the notes: D D C C B B Bflat Bflat A (C natural-low 2, B-flat - low 1)

Last note: pizz. means pizzicato means pluck

So all you need to do is to practice 2 bars at a time, check if I wrote anything about the chosen bars, listen to my recording if not sure, and work your way through the piece each time you own each 2 bars. It will repeat itself later, so it's actually a shorter piece than it looks.

You have done harder pieces than this, but be alert every step of the way to catch those accidentals, and then have fun with the backing track too!

Happy Practicing,

Mr Horvath