So, yesterday I made it my mission to spend a lot of 2011 working on scales and songs. Today I added another criterion to that list: I'm going to do so first on the acoustic. The reasons behind this are two-fold.
1) the thicker neck and strings will strengthen my fingers, making the electric all that much easier when I get there.
2) the songs aspect will eventually get me comfortable with playing live, and it'll help me fine tune my set list.
Within all that, I'm most curious about alternate chord voicings that will come out of the scales and whatnot. Not only will it help when it comes to translating songs to the acoustic, but I expect that it'll also help out with my songwriting.
That said, I sat with the acoustic tonight, working through the key of C. Had fun finding the pockets of notes in C that really sing on my acoustic, and I may have found a few areas of the fretboard that will be fun for fills and adornments on basic progressions.
1) the thicker neck and strings will strengthen my fingers, making the electric all that much easier when I get there.
2) the songs aspect will eventually get me comfortable with playing live, and it'll help me fine tune my set list.
Within all that, I'm most curious about alternate chord voicings that will come out of the scales and whatnot. Not only will it help when it comes to translating songs to the acoustic, but I expect that it'll also help out with my songwriting.
That said, I sat with the acoustic tonight, working through the key of C. Had fun finding the pockets of notes in C that really sing on my acoustic, and I may have found a few areas of the fretboard that will be fun for fills and adornments on basic progressions.
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