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Derek Dowling
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October 6th, 2025
Today we added songs: The Cowboy Rides Away and Sing Me Back Home by Merle Haggard.
This last song required learning a new chord, E, which I wrote out for him.
I recommended Derek try searching for songs on YouTube for guitar in the key of G... something "country songs for guitar with chords key of g"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W_057TaAXI
Remember, no lessons next week because of Thanksgiving.
September 29th, 2025
We reviewed the chords from last two weeks ago, and about half way through went over C, which was new last week. We just reviewed through all those chords to speed them up, and Derek did great.
We then looked at a few songs he's interested in. They're just about all the chords he's already learned:
Travis Tritt, I Can Be Somebody
George Strait, I Can Still Make Cheyenne
George Strait, The Cowboy Rides Away
September 22nd, 2025
Today we added C, D, and A chords, and worked our way between them.
We talked a bit about the Every Rose Has It's Thorn song, and Hurt by Johnny Cash... he's close to being able to learn those already.
September 15th, 2025
This was Derek's first week. We learned some of the names of the parts of the guitar, like nut and bridge, frets and fret board. We learned the E minor, G, and A minor chords, and a simple strum pattern of down, down, down-up, down.