For Beginning Guitarists Right and Left Hand Basics

For Beginning Guitarists Right and Left Hand Basics Suzy S. Want to improve your coordination and guitar technique? Here, Goodyear, AZ guitar teacher  David A.  shares two simple guitar exercises to try out   Do you love listening to guitar music and do you want to learn how to play? Well, in addition to having a passion for guitar, it is important for you as the aspiring guitarist to maintain a consistent practice routine that incorporates guitar exercises to improve your right and left hand coordination and timing, which will, in turn, boost your overall musicianship and enjoyment of the instrument! The Mechanics of Playing the Guitar Guitar exercises involve the right and left hands doing two separate things at the same time. The challenge can be just that: get the right and left hands to do those two things at the same time! The right hand, hovering over the body of the guitar and using a guitar pick or just the fingers, strums, plucks, or picks one or more strings, while the fingers of the left hand press down on the appropriate strings at the other end of the guitar on the neck fretboard. (Note: I am describing hand movements from the point of view of a right-handed guitarist, so if you are playing a left-handed guitar, the actions of the hands are reversed.) Exercises to Strengthen the Hands Improve Coordination Although it is not possible to cover all of the many guitar exercises or go into specific detail regarding proper technique within the scope of this article, I will describe a couple of drills that would certainly be a great start for the beginner. For the following examples, let’s assume that you will be using a guitar pick. You hold the pick between your thumb and index finger, with the pointed end of your pick striking the strings. There are three basic picking patterns to strike the strings: downstroke (toward the ground), upstroke (toward the sky), and alternate (down, then up). To fret with the left hand, make a loose fist with the knuckles bent. Place your thumb along the back of the guitar neck. Place the other 4 fingers on the front of the neck. The finger assignments for the left hand are as follows: index is 1, middle is 2, ring is 3, and pinky is 4. If possible, use a metronome to help keep time. A good starting metronome speed is at or around 60 beats per minute (BPM). Allow at least 5 to 10 minutes to complete each exercise and practice them daily! Exercise 1: This is a simple drill on the high E string. Fret this string on the first fret with finger 1 of the left hand. Try to use the tip of your finger to fret the note. (You will build up calluses on the tips of your fingers.) With the right hand, play downstrokes with the pick with each click or beep of your metronome. Repeat this exercise by playing upstrokes, again hitting the string on each metronome beat. Finally, play a repeating alternate picking pattern. You can gradually increase your metronome speed as you feel more comfortable. Since this exercise does not involve moving the left hand to fret different notes, try experimenting by using a different finger on a different fret to fret the E string, while you play the downstroke, upstroke, and alternate picking patterns with your right hand. Exercise 2: This time, you will play the 3 right-hand picking patterns, but we will add left-hand finger movement. Start with finger 1 on first fret, and with each consecutive click of the metronome, place finger 2 on the second fret, then finger 3 on the third, then finger 4 on the fourth. Increase your metronome speed as you feel more comfortable. The goal is to coordinate the timing of the picking of the right hand with the fretting by the different fingers of the left hand. Repetition is the Key Practicing the guitar resembles, in some ways, practicing a sport. Just as baseball players have to develop the mechanical ability to throw and catch a ball through repeated drills, guitarists have to acquire the ability to sound the correct notes on their guitars through continual practicing. The trick is to develop technique through the repeated execution of guitar exercises that promote hand coordination and timing. While there are many exercises that you can practice, it is important that you play them slowly and evenly at first, and then gradually build up speed. With regular and consistent practice, you will notice that as you gain greater control over your right and left hand picking and fretting technique, your speed of execution will increase. As your guitar technique improves, you will start being able to learn how to play the music that YOU enjoy and ultimately, achieve your guitar lesson goals and beyond! David A. teaches guitar, piano, singing, songwriting, and more in Goodyear, AZ. He has  performed in numerous and varied musical situations, including with The University of Maryland Jazz Orchestra and the Pavement Chasers Tribute to Adele. He currently performs as a freelance keyboardist and guitarist in the Phoenix metro area.    Learn more about David here!   Interested in Private Lessons? Search thousands of teachers for local and live, online lessons. Sign up for convenient, affordable private lessons today! Search for Your Teacher Photo  by  David Masters

Online Geometry Help to Improve Grades

Online Geometry Help to Improve Grades 0SHARESShare Online geometry tutors design fun and interactive programs.   The sessions will help you better understand the concepts. The online program gives you the opportunity to work and share documents on an interactive whiteboard, experience live voice, and chat using IM. Explore the world of Internet learning and make a difference in your grades. Tutor Pace’s comprehensive online geometry program will help you to recognize shapes and solids, examine properties of two and three dimensional shapes, work out geometric relationships, understand Theorems and write Proofs. The program will construct your problem solving skills. High School Geometry Curriculum: Figures And Their Properties: Lines and Angles Euclidean and Coordinate Geometry Triangles: Triangles and Their Properties Angles, side length, perimeter Pythagorean Theorem and its applications Medians, altitudes and perpendicular bisectors Quadrilaterals: Quadrilaterals and Their Properties Proofs involving quadrilaterals: Theorems about the interior and exterior angle sums of a quadrilateral  Circles: Circles and Their Properties Logical Reasoning: Law of Syllogism Get Going and Get ahead with Internet tutoring advantages: Grab the chance of having personalized one on one geometry tutoring from an expert. Voice based sessions and interactive whiteboard for solving problems make learning effective. The online tutors simplify teaching and makes learning easy and fun. The tutors take tests to evaluate your progress. Plan a session with your geometry tutor at a time of your convenience. The online geometry tutors proffer geometry homework assistance and prepare you for the approaching geometry exam. Schedule a free demo session with our online geometry tutor now. Learning is a fun and engaging experience! [starbox id=admin]

What Subjects Are Covered in the Food Technology Curriculum

What Subjects Are Covered in the Food Technology Curriculum The Standard Course List for a Food Technology Degree ChaptersAn Outline of Courses For Year OneYear Two Curriculum ChoicesYear Three Study ProgrammePoints to Consider When Choosing ClassesToday, we start our dissertation by admitting to a bit of hubris.Universities across the UK offer food-related degrees and each of them proposes a slightly different curriculum.Besides that, the field of food science technology is so vast that we could hardly begin to know where to start describing it, let alone advocating for one course of study over all of the others.Finally, there is you: are you more interested in food technology or does food microbiology really get it for you? Do you have a soft spot for food chemistry, food preservation or do you just really want to know about human nutrition?Obviously, we couldn’t possibly list the syllabus of every single university that offers a degree in food technology; this article would be far too long!What we can do, though, is list the core subjects you will be expected to complete and also present el ectives you might choose to round out your studies.So… maybe not hubris, after all. Your Superprof stands guilty of plotting an ambitious plan to help you choose which path to follow for your undergraduate program, that’s all! It seems you are ready for your first year of study in food science and nutrition but have you considered these courses? Image by ????????? ???? from PixabayThis course list, reflecting the first year of study, apply to degrees in food science, food technology with bioprocessing, nutrition and food science, and nutrition with food consumer science.Were you angling more towards a food science with business degree, your core course list would include classes in economics, introductory courses in management and marketing, along with other courses listed above.Optional CoursesTo round out your studies, you would have a choice of electives for all of the food sciences degrees save perhaps for a degree in nutrition.Again, the elective courses available to you depend on the degree plan you choose.If you aim for a Food Science degree, you may get to select from:Introduction to NeuroscienceIntroduction to MarketingIntroduction to ManagementFundamental Concepts in Chemistry 1Economics 1Percept ionYou might wonder what a class in perception entails and how it relates to food science.The taste, smell and appearance of food is very important; usually, people will not eat something that does not appeal to them or runs contrary to their dietary norms.Haggis, that iconic Scottish dish, is a fine example of how the perception of a food can deter people from eating it.Labelling the ingredients ‘offal’ gives people a reason to turn away from the dish because, when we think of offal, it generally means 'that which is cast off'.The science behind food perception is why so many people who visit Beijing post pictures of grilled scorpions and crickets sold a food vendor stalls with expressions ranging from wonder to disgust…And most likely why food scientists would have a hard time convincing people in Britain to incorporate protein-packed insects in their diet as a substitute for meat.Do you wonder, when you train to become a food technologist, whether such subjects would be cov ered? If things get too tough in your biotechnology course, you can count on a Superprof tutor to help advance your studies! Image by Nicholas Jackson from PixabayYear Two Curriculum ChoicesIf you thought your first year at university was intense because of all the science subjects you studied, hold on to your hats because Year Two will really drill down to the smallest particles involved in food studies.For instance, if you’ve set yourself on the food scientist degree path, you will study:microbiological hazards in foodthe microbiology of food preservation and spoilagebiochemistry and enzymologythe composition and properties of foodsindustrial training preparationfood processingfundamentals of human nutritionAs you can surely see by the list of core courses, the Year Two food science trainee will discover a full spectrum of food-related topics from microorganisms that impact food to how food is processed, both in a manufacturing plant and in our bodies.Just as in Year One, the food tech nology student’s mandatory courses and electives aren’t quite so ominous-sounding.For example, rather than studying enzymology, you may instead choose process engineering principles, an eye-opening course that will better prepare you for working in a food processing plant.Also, your optional courses are a bit more diverse; you may, for example, study sports and exercise nutrition or learn about food choice and regulation. As we understand it, that last is about consumers choosing foods and regulating their food intake, not about government standards regarding food.Year Three Study ProgrammeWould you be relieved to know that, by the time you enter your third year of study to become a food technologist, most of the difficult subjects will be behind you?In your last year of study as an undergraduate, your work will become more cerebral and reflective, pondering such topics as:Quality assurance and food safetyaspects of food chemistryresearch methods for nutritional and food science sproduct developmentDiet and diseasesensory evaluation of foodOf these, the last one seems most fascinating!As you’ll remember, in Year One, you will study food perception â€" a captivating subject in itself. In your last year, you will delve deeper, exploring how our senses make snap decisions about the foods we eat.When thinking about this topic, I can think of no better food to evaluate than ‘stinky tofu’, a dish found primarily in China and Taiwan.It is so pungent you can smell it from blocks away and woe to you if someone happens to walk past with a bowl of it; its less-than-fragrant bouquet tends to linger long after the offending tofu is gone.Even Andrew Zimmern, the culinary expert that travels the world sampling all manner of strange foods for his Bizarre Foods programme declared he couldn’t eat stinky tofu!Again this year, you will have a bevvy of subjects to choose from that will round out your undergraduate studies; consumer attitudes towards food quality being e specially pertinent just now.Have you seen the news recently? In the US, there is currently an expanded recall on romaine lettuce from a particular region in California; it is thought to be contaminated with a strain of E-coli.Thanks to modern food transportation systems, that lettuce has made its way across the country and has further been used in food processing plants to make ready-to-eat salads and sushi.Meanwhile, here in the UK, our Foods Standards Agency has listed recalls on assorted products due to inaccurate labelling â€" omitting potential allergens from the ingredients list, and Darwin’s Dairy recalled its products because they discovered a breakdown in their pasteurising process.If public health and safety are important to you, you may enjoy taking a course in customer’s attitudes toward food quality or a food and toxicology elective in your final year.Your turn to talk: what is your understanding of a food technologist’s job? Although the science research facilities and other teaching facilities are important, your curriculum should bear more weight when considering a school Image by Nikolay Georgiev from PixabayPoints to Consider When Choosing ClassesThe schools we investigated all had comprehensive food technologist study programs but each one made it clear that, due to the impact on public health and safety, students who graduate from their schools are encouraged to seek an apprenticeship with a food concern rather than full-time employment.Unlike many professions, a graduate with a food technologist degree will not be hired outright for a position of responsibility.That being the case, you may consider spending an extra year as an undergraduate, in a work-study programme. Several universities around the UK offer such programmes but you have to enquire about them and sign up.If a Bachelor’s degree is all you have time and energy for (and there is nothing wrong with that), such a work-study plan would present you with career opportunities you might not otherwise have available to you.However, if you intend to move on to a graduate program, consider the fact that your undergraduate electives take on additional weight.For instance, if you plan on specialising in Food Technology as a graduate student, selecting lifestyle and nutrition courses as your electives would probably not serve you well even though they would be quite interesting.As a student of food science and technology, you will have a lot to consider, from which branch of the discipline you would most like to make your mark to which courses will satisfy your intellectual curiosity while bringing you closer to your dream job.Hopefully, we helped inform you a bit about the choices you’re facing. 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ACT - English Overview and Basic Strategies

ACT - English Overview and Basic Strategies ACT SAT Prep and College Admissions Blog This article provides a quick overview of critical information to know and key strategies to apply to boost your performance on the ACT-English test. It is organized around three sections: overview, strategies, and concepts. A. ACT-English Section Overview Timing: 75 questions in 45 minutes 15 questions every 9 minutes Skills tested:Usage/grammar and rhetorical skills B. Strategies to employ General strategies for the ACT-English section Don’t waste too much time on any single question. Every question is worth the same amount, regardless of difficulty. Go mostly in order. Answer all questions in a section before moving on to the next one. Strategy for usage/grammar questions Read each answer in the context of the sentence. Eliminate answers that are obviously wrong. Look for patterns in the remaining answers. If no obvious grammatical issues in the remaining choices, choose the most concise, to-the-point answer. Strategy for rhetorical skills questions When a question asks you to put something into context of the paragraph/passage, quickly read over the paragraph (or skim the passage) and be able to sum it up in a single sentence. This will often directly relate to the answer. C. Concepts to grasp 1. Paralell structure - having the same pattern of words, phrases, or clauses. Example 1: Not Parallel:Mary likes hiking, swimming, andto ridea bicycle. Parallel:Mary likes hiking, swimming, and ridinga bicycle. Example 2: Not Parallel:The teacher said that he was a poor student because he waiteduntil the last minute to study for the exam, completedhis lab problems in a careless manner, andhis motivation waslow. Parallel:The teacher said that he was a poor student because he waiteduntil the last minute to study for the exam, completedhis lab problems in a careless manner, and lackedmotivation. 2. - Misplaced modifier - word or phrase that is improperly separated from the word it describes. Example 1: Unclear: On her way home, Jan found a gold man's watch. Clear: On her way home, Jan found a man's gold watch. Unclear: The waiter served a dinner roll to the woman that was well buttered. Clear: The waiter served a dinner roll that was well buttered to the woman. 3. Transitional phrases - the ACT loves transitional words and phrases. Examples include but, and, yet, however, nonetheless, and furthermore. If you notice that all of the answer choices are transition words/phrases, read the sentence before the transition and the sentence after it and determine how they are related. 4. Comma splice â€" connecting two full sentences with a comma. Example 1: Comma splice: It is nearly half past five, we cannot reach town before dark. Fixed version 1 (using semi-colon): It is nearly half past five; we cannot reach town before dark. Fixed version 2 (using dash): It is nearly half past five â€" we cannot reach town before dark. Fixed version 3 (using colon): We cannot reach town before dark: it is nearly half past five. Fixed version 4 (using two sentences): It is nearly half past five. We cannot reach town before dark. Fixed version 5 (inserting a conjunction): It is nearly half past five, so we cannot reach town before dark Hopefully you are now on your way to preparing for the ACT-English section.

English Word Order with Adverbs (Video+Exercise)

English Word Order with Adverbs (Video+Exercise) Do you have difficulty with word order in English? Here is our second video and exercise to help with this. This time we will practice word order with adverbs, with the general rules and the exceptions.Heres an example of two sentences with adverbs. One of them is incorrect. Watch the video to see which is correct, and more importantly, to learn why.Always I go to the gym.I always go to the gym.   Place the adverbs in the correct part of the sentence. Write your answers in comments and we will correct them.  We were in New York. (last week)She waited. (patiently)My brother goes skiing. (always)Your bathroom is. (upstairs)We dont go swimming. (in winter)Dogs can hear. (well)I saw her. (there)My friend speaks Mandarin. (fluently)I have heard that song. (never) / (before)Ok, thats it! We hope you enjoyed this exercise. Contact us if you would like to try an English class via Skype. Fabrizzio Scavone We were in New York last week She patiently waited My brother always goes skiing Your b athroom is upstairs We dont go swimming in winter Dogs can hear well I saw her there My friend speaks mandarin fluently I have never heard tan song before LOIEnglish Fabrizzio,The second sentence: She patiently waited or She waited patiently is a bit difficult. There isnt a strong rule about the placement of a modifying adverb. An adverb that answers the question how. Patiently is a modifying adverb. It tells us how she waited. Normally in this sentence we would use the second option, She waited patiently. When the sentence is short, only has one idea, and isnt a compound sentence we put the adverb after the verb. She waited patiently. If the sentence was longer and conveyed more information: She patiently waited at the train station for her brother to arrive in this case both forms are correct.Lets look at another example: He quietly read. =This sounds a bit strange. It isnt necessarily incorrect but a bit awkward. He read quietly. =This sounds better. He quietly read by the fire with a warm cup of coffee in his hand. =This sounds fine because the sentence conveys a lot of information. He read quietly by the fire with a small cat curled on his lap. =This also sounds fine.Also I think you had a typo in the last sentence. I have never heard THAT song before.Thanks for answering. Leopoldo Cerqueira we were in new york in last week she waited patiently My brother always goes skiing Your bathroom is upstairs Dogs can hear well I saw her here My friend speaks Mandarin fluently I have never heard that song before. LOIEnglish Leopoldo, Very good! You made one small mistake. In sentence number one: We were in New York last week. You included an extra preposition in. We usually dont use a preposition when we use the adverbial expression last for time. For example: I got married last month. Last year was 2011.Notice that both the above examples we dont use a preposition before last. Also you may notice that we dont use an article either.Another small problem with yo ur answers is your punctuation. Be sure when writing in English that you are punctuating correctly.Hope this helps! Sergio Lacerda 1. We were in New York last week. 2. She waited patiently. 3. My brother always goes skiing. 4. Your bathroom is upstairs. 5. We dont go swimming in winter. 6. Dogs can hear well. 7. I saw her there. 8. My friend speaks mandarin fluently. 9. I never have heard that song before.

Ten Tips from Someone Who Knows Sixteen Languages

Ten Tips from Someone Who Knows Sixteen Languages Kato Lomb was a Hungarian interpreter, translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world. Originally she graduated in physics and chemistry, but her interest soon led her to languages. A native Hungarian, she was able to interpret fluently nine or ten languages (Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Ukrainian), in four of them even without any preparation, and she translated technical literature and read belles-letters in six languages. And it was in her time, no audio CD with the voices of the carrier or Skype or language schools How? In her best-selling book How I learn languages ??, she broke it down to ten rules for learning languages. 1. You need to deal with language every day! Its like the gym if you want impressive muscles train them regularly! Set aside at least 10-15 minutes to read or repeat new phrases. 2. If you wish to learn the language quickly, come up with your own schedule of classes. For example, some study and exercise, then a little music, a little break for a walk. 3. Context all of us! We do not learn the individual words, only in the context! For example, if you remember the expression «strong wind », then one of the words in the memory automatically calls the second! 4. Especially useful to read textbooks on the field and try some phrases and use them to the fullest in the dialogue. 5. Mentally translate in your mind what catches the eye advertising, excerpts of songs, dialogues, names of newspaper articles. Unpretentious and helpful! 6. Learn by heart a useful thing! But you just have to memorize what is absolutely correct! If you need one here is a link: Find me a tutor 7. Already prepared to use phrases, idioms are recorded and saved in memory in the first person. For example: «I am only pulling your leg » (I’m just teasing you.) 8. Any foreign language study cannot be isolated, such as I’ll just quietly do the exercises in your exercise book and listen to the teacher. Watch movies, read books and newspapers in their original form , communicate with English-speaking friends on the internet! Actually, Kato Lomb started learning Russian with Dead Souls by Gogol and an impressive vocabulary! 9. Do not be afraid to make mistakes, fear of uncorrected errors! Never leave anything unchecked. 10. Follow these simple suggestions and you will be speaking fluently very soon. Be sure that no matter what, you will learn the language!

Academia Avance

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Should schools be spending the Pupil Premium funding on Private Tuition

Should schools be spending the Pupil Premium funding on Private Tuition The Pupil Premium is funding given to state schools in England to help improve the results of disadvantaged youngsters - those eligible for free school meals. Pupil premium funding has provided 6bn support for poorer pupils between 2011 and 2015. A new report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) argues that there is some evidence that the achievement gap between rich and poor youngsters has started to narrow since the introduction of the Pupil Premium in 2011. Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), said: There is no doubt that the Pupil Premium has enabled schools to do more to improve the outcomes of their less advantaged pupils. Many schools have put the funding to effective use by gaining a deep understanding of their students and developing a tailored and personalised approach to help students succeed in their academic abilities.Schools are free to spend their pupil premium as they wish, and the Department for Education's website state that one-to-one tuition has been found to improve the attainment of struggling students. Headteachers have asked First Tutors if our Tutors would run lunchtime classes in subjects their schools did not offer, such as Mandarin and Latin. Have you been recruited by a School to help with one-to-one private tuition? Do you believe the Pupil Premium has stimulated more demand for tuition work? If you are a School looking for a Private Tutor as part of the Pupil Premium Fund, we welcome you to Register Here.First Tutors can help you find Private Tutors to help your child/student progresses from primary school to secondary exams and right through to university.