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Module1 Practice Plan

The 30-Day Chord Melody Challenge by FretDojo.com requires participants to practice at least 30 minutes a day, five days a week, focusing on chord arrangements rather than improvisation. Participants should watch all module videos, download PDFs and backing tracks, and engage in various activities such as learning chord scales and experimenting with chord voicings. Daily practice of at least one chord exercise is encouraged to enhance chord knowledge and facilitate arranging tunes.

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Module1 Practice Plan

The 30-Day Chord Melody Challenge by FretDojo.com requires participants to practice at least 30 minutes a day, five days a week, focusing on chord arrangements rather than improvisation. Participants should watch all module videos, download PDFs and backing tracks, and engage in various activities such as learning chord scales and experimenting with chord voicings. Daily practice of at least one chord exercise is encouraged to enhance chord knowledge and facilitate arranging tunes.

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Practice Plan: Module 1

30-Day Chord Melody Challenge presented by [Link]

Duration: At least 30 minutes per day, 5 days per week

What I want you to do first:

• Watch through all the videos in this module, downloading (and printing out if possible)
the various PDFs for each lesson. Make notes on what you’re learning in a notebook or
Word document as you watch the videos.

• Also download the backing tracks featured in the lesson pages and get them organized (if
you would like to play them from your computer rather than on the website).

Note: that there are quite a lot of videos in this module so you might find your first practice
sessions in this course simply watching the videos and playing along with the exercises here and
there. That’s perfectly fine and to be expected.

Remember that this is more an arranging course rather than something like an improvisation
course, and there’s quite a bit to learn about chords before we can get started with arranging
which we’ll cover in detail next week.

Once you have watched all the videos:


If time permits, try out the following activities:

• Activity #1: Learn to play the complete CMaj7 chord scale. Once you have the chord scale
under your fingers, improvise some comping/chord soloing with the chord shapes over ‘A
Summer’s Day’ backing track as I demonstrate in that lesson.

• Activity #2: Play through one new chord scale a day from the ‘Major ii – V – I Chord
Scales’.

• Activity #3: Once you have learned to at least read and play the Major ii – V – I Chord
Scales reasonably fluently, then have a go at comping/chord soloing over the Major ii –
V – I backing track as I demonstrate in that lesson. Spend some time playing the chords
in each of the CAGED positions before moving to the next position up the fretboard.

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• Activity #4: Rinse and repeat the previous 2 steps but using the ‘Minor ii – V – I Chord
Scales covered in that lesson.

• Activity #5: Take one of the chord voicings you learnt from the chord scales you have
worked on. Then experiment adding and altering the notes in the basic chord shape to
come up with new harmonic colors (I give an example of this on a G7 chord lesson). See if
you can work out what names you would give to each new voicing you create based on the
intervals that are present in the chord.

Do at least one of these chord exercises daily throughout this course moving forward.
As I mentioned previously, it’s not necessary to memorize all these chord shapes as this is more
an arranging course than an improvisation course, BUT the more familiar you are with these
shapes the easier it will be to arrange tunes (and it will help improve your chord knowledge
generally for things like comping and chord soloing).

Task: Commit to practicing at least 30 minutes daily for 5 practice sessions on the
exercises in the practice plan.

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