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Final "Official Lesson".
Pentatonic and blues scales. And a link to a place online to find some backing tracks to jam to. Some pointers on elbows and wrists.
Jammed for about an hour with either backing tracks or just backing each other up and trading off.
So far as I am concerned, at this point "lessons" are done, and he can pick up new tricks by watching or asking how to do something or figure it out himself, like any musician does.
So far as his gf and mother are concerned, he still is "taking lessons", though. It gives him a convenient "out" when he wants a couple hours off from his gf and his mother mentioned she was proud of him for taking music lessons.
He's been working on his tone a bit, and is doing nice full sounding notes instead of the kind of hesitant way he was originally playing. He's a bit fixated on wanting to have written tab score in front of him when playing, but does fine at "just making stuff up" when playing after he works on his practice pieces. Been playing for his gf, and letting her daughter play Punkin when he is over there and showing her some of the things he knows on it. She wants to take violin now, but it is still a couple of years before it would be offered at her school. Time will tell on if her interest lasts that long.
Punkin has "played in" a good bit. He would have taken her past that "100 hours" approximate mark sometime this past month. I'd put in a bit over 70 hours on Punkin before giving her to him, and he's put in over 30 since then. And some things definitely improved in her sound. The D string sounding sort of "stuffy" and "shouty" is gone. All the strings sound nice and even in volume and the overall tone has smoothed out a bit and is definitely pleasant.
Anyway, I covered what I intended to cover in the "lessons", and he is doing fine with being able to find new music for himself to try, and make stuff up, and has started playing for family and close friends. He can jam a bit and have fun doing it. He takes good care of the instrument.
Think what you will, but I'm calling this bit of "teaching" done in any formal sense now, and I consider it not too bad a job. He's having a good time playing.
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman
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