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The Student and Tutor focused on guitar technique, refining fingerpicking precision, and optimizing right-hand strumming mechanics. They explored dynamic control by transitioning between fingerpicking, finger strumming, and pick strumming, along with applying rhythmic patterns. The Student received a new sheet of strumming patterns for practice.

The Student and Tutor worked on guitar techniques and specific riffs from the song "Pride and Joy." They focused on finger placement, tone adjustment, blues chord shapes, bending, pull-offs, and rhythmic intricacies of the song's intro. The plan is to continue refining "Pride and Joy" next week, and the Student was asked to consider other material to work on.

Student and Tutor worked on improving guitar technique, focusing on finger strength for chords and proper guitar tuning. They learned and practiced specific fingerpicking patterns and strumming for the song "This Town" by Niall Horan, along with understanding chord theory for "add9" and "minor 7" chords. Homework includes hand-strengthening exercises, spider crawls, and refining the fingerpicking motion.

Student and Tutor organized a song list into categories and performed guitar warm-up exercises. The session focused on practicing "Creep" by Radiohead, including chord progressions, rhythm, and bar chord technique. For homework, Student was advised to practice smooth transitions between known open chord shapes using various strumming patterns.

The Student and Tutor reviewed and critiqued the Student's pre-recorded bass solos over D major/C minor and one-to-four chord progressions. The Tutor provided comprehensive feedback on developing greater creative freedom, rhythmic intentionality, and melodic storytelling in soloing. For follow-up, the Student is to practice these concepts over new chord progressions and create new solo takes, with the Tutor also offering to provide some played examples of the discussed ideas.

The Student and Tutor practiced bass guitar techniques, focusing on major scale finger placement and specific song basslines. They worked on improving timing for "Another One Bites the Dust" and learned new approaches to playing "Seven Nation Army" and "Stand By Me." The session also covered string muting techniques and an introduction to ear training for identifying song root notes, with plans for the Student to practice the new songs as homework.