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GP THREE  REQUIREMENTS

• Rhythm:  Exercise no.3.  While tapping your foot and counting out loud in 4/4 time (one, two, three, four) play a whole note, two half notes, four quarter notes, eight eighth notes, four times play a  doted quarter then eighth note, eight eighth notes, four quarter notes, two half note, one whole note and then say "and stop" when done, as if on the first beat of the bar after the end of the exercise.  "One, two three, four and stop."  On the doted quarter and eighth notes count "one, two and, three four and."  Be careful to use proper alternate picking techniques!
• Scales:   Play the A minor pentatonic scale at the second  position.  We call this the 4,6 minor pentatonic scale (4th finger plays the root at the 6th string).  Call the notes  while playing the open position "A minor" scales including; the natural minor, harmonic minor, classical melodic minor and the jazz minor scales. Call the notes while playing the second position C major scale.  This is the 2, 5 major scale.  See lesson # 6 for specifics.
• Chords:  Play open position chords Cmaj7, E-7, A-7, D-7, G7, Fmaj7 and B-7b5 (minor seven flat five).  Also play the second position C bar chord with the root on the 5th string and the second position Gmaj7 chord, root on the 6th string.
• Memorize: The notes on the 5th string  Demonstrate your knowledge of these notes using the barred C chord up and down the neck.  The teacher will call the new chord and the student will move the barre chord to the correct position.
• Whatever method book you use find the equivalent to the following.  The student should be able to sight read from page 27 to 47 of the Mel Bay, Method for Modern Guitar book 1.  The teacher should know that this has been done before the test, you won't have time to prove this.
• Perform:  "Sor's Waltz" on page 46.
• Theory: Answer questions about some or all of the following: the I, IV and V chords in the key of C, whole and half steps, accidentals, tempo including andante, moderato and allegro, the I, IV and V chords in the key of A harmonic minor, first and second endings, tempo, the I, IV and V chords in the key of G major and in E minor, and terms for dynamics ranging from very soft to very loud.
• Exercise #2.  Line up four fingers to four frets. Starting at the first fret on the sixth string play 1, 2, 3, 4, move to the 5th string and repeat, then the 4th string, then the 3rd, 2nd and  1st string.  Move up one fret play 4, 3, 2, 1 on the 1st string and repeat moving across each string back across to the 6th string.  Repeat the exercise moving up the neck.
• Triads: Play the C major, F major and G major triads up and back down the neck on the first three strings.  Melody on the first string starting with the lowest note you can, play each  triad up to at least the 12th fret and then back down to the lowest note that you can on the 1st string.
• Gymnastics: H.O. P.O. Exercise number one using the A minor pentatonic scales 4,6 and 1,6.

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