- Continue to work through your pages of single note exercises. Remember to practice in chunks using the Rule of Five and go slow.
- Keep up the good work singing out the notes as play them during these exercises, try to strengthen your voice by pushing more air from your diaphragm and singing nice and loud. Opening your mouth to let the air and sound out will help as well.
- Keep working on your chords, make 2-3 new progressions with increased rhythmic difficulty where you're changing chords within measures using shorter note values of half notes or quarter notes.
- Go ahead and look at your fretting hand again at this point if it helps, but remember to work on reducing indecision and fingering errors, especially by going even slower with the metronome if necessary and remembering to build your chords from the lowest string being fretted to the highest. Remember to mute the low E string with your thumb on the applicable chords and to have an ear out for when you play a chord incorrectly so you can adjust the next time.
- Another thing that might help when doing your chord practice is to count the beats aloud along with the metronome, which should help you focus in and has a variety of addition timing benefits.
- Check out the video below about sleeping positions. It can be difficult to adjust at first, but I think you would benefit in a number of ways from switching to a more ergonomic side-sleeping position.
- I also put a link for the tuner I recommend for Lucy since her Uke doesn't have one built in.
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