Didn't have a ton of time to spend in the studio today, but I found it interesting that, a day after I posted about a record that had gotten somewhat lost in the shuffle, I found a pile of magazines that had experienced the same fate.
I've got two music stands in my studio. One is a tabletop stand that sits on my worktable that is usually holding whatever it is I'm currently focused in on, and the other is your regular, run of the mill, black music stand that has spent the last six weeks holding whatever didn't really have a place yet when I first started setting up the studio.
Tonight, as I went to grab the notebook that holds my song ideas from the last year or so, I noticed that, directly underneath it were a few magazines I've picked up in the last few months that must have wound up there because I brought them into the studio and just needed somewhere to stash them. At the bottom of that pile was a DVD and booklet from Guitar Techniques (still in the plastic wrap it came in) on improving your blues rhythm. I remember buying it, thinking that it would make a good addition to what would become the blues section of my lesson binder. Somehow finding it tonight, as I've spent the last few weeks more focused in on the blues, just seems fitting. Didn't take the time to mess around with the DVD tonight, just glanced through the examples in the booklet. Seems like fun, though, and I'll definitely take the DVD for a test run tomorrow.
Got through the 4th lick of the week in Guitar Aerobics. Today's lick was almost identical to last Thursday's except that it focused on the top four strings as opposed to the bottom four, and used upstrokes instead of downstrokes for the strumming. I like the fact that this book is trying to improve my playing from both sides. It continues to be a good challenge.
I've got two music stands in my studio. One is a tabletop stand that sits on my worktable that is usually holding whatever it is I'm currently focused in on, and the other is your regular, run of the mill, black music stand that has spent the last six weeks holding whatever didn't really have a place yet when I first started setting up the studio.
Tonight, as I went to grab the notebook that holds my song ideas from the last year or so, I noticed that, directly underneath it were a few magazines I've picked up in the last few months that must have wound up there because I brought them into the studio and just needed somewhere to stash them. At the bottom of that pile was a DVD and booklet from Guitar Techniques (still in the plastic wrap it came in) on improving your blues rhythm. I remember buying it, thinking that it would make a good addition to what would become the blues section of my lesson binder. Somehow finding it tonight, as I've spent the last few weeks more focused in on the blues, just seems fitting. Didn't take the time to mess around with the DVD tonight, just glanced through the examples in the booklet. Seems like fun, though, and I'll definitely take the DVD for a test run tomorrow.
Got through the 4th lick of the week in Guitar Aerobics. Today's lick was almost identical to last Thursday's except that it focused on the top four strings as opposed to the bottom four, and used upstrokes instead of downstrokes for the strumming. I like the fact that this book is trying to improve my playing from both sides. It continues to be a good challenge.
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