More playing today, by a longshot. None of it happened in an extended session, it was all in smaller chunks and various fits and starts, but it was good. Here's what I gathered from my fretwork tonight:
1) I don't have the intro to "Red House" memorized yet. I was just trying to work through a little bit of it, and I made it through the first 6-8 bars before it dawned on me that I was doing more improvising than remembering. Don't get me wrong, this isn't all bad by any stretch of the imagination, it's just that I feel like I ought to know it as Hendrix originally recorded it before I go messing about, changing stuff. Still, what I need is just a good, extended session.
2) While I'm on the subject of intros, one of the other ones I feel I need to learn note-for-note sometime soon is the intro to "Goodnight Elizabeth" by Counting Crows. I really love that song, and seeing as I already know the entire chord progression, I feel like I ought to get the intro down, or at least close enough to down that it's recognizable. Or close enough that I can mess around with it a bit, whichever comes first.
3) In playing around with that riff that I keep mentioning, I keep getting closer to having something that will actually (hopefully) wind up being a useable progression. I need to get better about that whole thing. The band has really fallen by the wayside the last few months. Still, sometimes I wonder why I'm always the one that has to do something about it.
Started listening to the Gravity Kills record on the way to work today. That disc is full of heavy, melodic fun. It's amazing to me, still, how much awesome music is out there in such a wide variety of genres.
1) I don't have the intro to "Red House" memorized yet. I was just trying to work through a little bit of it, and I made it through the first 6-8 bars before it dawned on me that I was doing more improvising than remembering. Don't get me wrong, this isn't all bad by any stretch of the imagination, it's just that I feel like I ought to know it as Hendrix originally recorded it before I go messing about, changing stuff. Still, what I need is just a good, extended session.
2) While I'm on the subject of intros, one of the other ones I feel I need to learn note-for-note sometime soon is the intro to "Goodnight Elizabeth" by Counting Crows. I really love that song, and seeing as I already know the entire chord progression, I feel like I ought to get the intro down, or at least close enough to down that it's recognizable. Or close enough that I can mess around with it a bit, whichever comes first.
3) In playing around with that riff that I keep mentioning, I keep getting closer to having something that will actually (hopefully) wind up being a useable progression. I need to get better about that whole thing. The band has really fallen by the wayside the last few months. Still, sometimes I wonder why I'm always the one that has to do something about it.
Started listening to the Gravity Kills record on the way to work today. That disc is full of heavy, melodic fun. It's amazing to me, still, how much awesome music is out there in such a wide variety of genres.
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