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The assignment isn’t clear:
Are we supposed to practice all 12 exercises in the three patterns during module 2? For two weeks, that is, and then move on to the opus?Yes, that is the assignment. If you can play the calisthenics by just looking at the summary in less than two weeks at a moderate tempo (that is, not reading the tab or regular notation), you can feel free to move on earlier. However, initially people take a long time getting comfortable with the fingerings and location of all the intervals, so I recommend a minimum of 2 weeks. Remember: just because a new module opens up every 30 days, this doesn’t mean you have to necessarily be ready to start on it then. Each player has to adapt the exercises in each module to their skill level and the amount of time they can devote to it.
All I can do in terms of recommended time to spend on each section, is estimate what it takes the intermediate player with a minimum of an hour, 5 to 6 times a week to complete the assignments. This is based on my 30+ years of working with students. That said, in the case of a beginning jazz guitarist (even if he has been playing for many years), it may take twice as long, or even longer…
I don’t recall if you discussed fingering. Are we supposed to remain strict, index at fret 8, etc, and pinky covering both 11 and 12 through out? It’s so tempting to shift index to 9 as needed.
I’m not sure which of the 3 patterns (1,4,or 5…or all 3) you’re referring to when you say, “shift index to 9 as needed”. Please give me the pattern & exercise number in which you feel it would be advantageous, and I will give you my opinion…
Sorry, I can’t give you a general answer. For the most part, try to use each fingering as taught. There are alternatives which can be good sometimes and require that we break out of the conventional fingering to facilitate the execution of a phrase. This is ultimately determined by the way a given phrase fits into the chosen pattern’s intervallic layout.
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