Each lesson has a name which tells you exactly what you need to know about the piece.

If it is from a published score (Sibelius white paper, not handwritten) then the lesson will refer to a number eg 23-25, referring to bar numbers, or to a code contained in the piece like "V1."

The lessons which are not scores but are handwritten are Blackboard Sessions and I use the code "Bb."

Then I tell you the date the lesson was made.

Afterwards the tuning. Tunings are always lower case for the bass strings EAD and upper for the treble strings (gbe). Then the capo position is "C" and a Roman numeral for which fret.

Then I give the length of the lessons at the end.

So

Elyne Road V1 Bb (23 June 2021) DADf#be CIII 11min

This means we did Elyne Road, Variation 1, using a blackboard, on 23rd June with the tuning DADf#be and Capo on the third fret and then lesson is 11 minutes long.

Inside the scores you will find these section markers:

K - Kumbengo or cycle

T - Theme or main melody

V - Variation

So I piece could be made up of three Ks, as K1, K2, K3 which are distinct variations of a cycle (like in Jarabi) or have a single K but some melodic variations on top of them which aren't strictly speaking themes. Like in Elyne Road. Elyne Road has one main Kumbengo, with a whole lot of Variations and a few Themes.

Each lesson has a title with some or all of these in this order:

name - part of piece - type of lesson - (date) - tuning - number of lesson that day

Name will be just the name. I usually don't mention the composer as this would be something you would either know or can google or see on the score.

Part of piece will either be bar numbers (132-145) or page number (Page 3) or "second half" - just to give those that are looking for a specific part a little guidance. But remember the main purpose of the lesson is the lesson, not to teach a part of a piece.

Type of lesson - I will sometimes say "By Ear" (no score) or "Audio Lesson" (no video) or "Playthrough" (working on a full page of a score with little detailed work). Sibelius score means we are working inside Sibelius, my notation programme.

Date. hmm. You know.

Tuning is bass notes in big letters and treble strings in small letters. The C is for capo and the Roman numeral tells you which fret to put the capo on.

Sometimes I add a number at the end of the name because we did all the things exactly the same earlier in the day and even the date is the same so the file system wants it to be different. So I'll add a 2 or 3.

Hope that helps! Name of lesson doesn't really matter much - what matters is to play with that period of time, have no doubt, find what you can play and play it, while leaving the rest.