Had a couple of (obvious) new thoughts today, as I continue to assemble what will become my own guide to rock & roll mastery (ha, ha). They were:
1) That I need to find all of my backing tracks, be they from magazines, ones that I've been given, or ones that I've created myself, and get them all onto a single CD. Practicing scales is great, but it doesn't mean much in the long run if you can't take that knowledge and put it to practical use.
2) I need to sit down and evaluate my playing as if I were a student coming to take lessons from myself. It takes a bit to wrap your head around that statement, but once I did, it made a lot of sense to me. What would/will I hear in my own playing that, as a teacher, I could change or improve? How would I explain the things that I struggle with to someone else who was having the same issue? These are the questions I need to be asking myself as I strive, each day, to get better.
On some level, it's just nice to be getting all of these thoughts down in one place. I've been assembling them all in a notebook, and it's definitely inching its way closer to full.
Kept going with the Stephen Kellogg disc in the car today. It's an extremely consistent record, mostly acoustic in nature, but not "quiet" by any means. Really enjoying it.
All told, a really good day with a few positive steps forward. The Acuff adventure starts Monday. I'm going to try and get all of my ducks in a row by the end of the weekend.
1) That I need to find all of my backing tracks, be they from magazines, ones that I've been given, or ones that I've created myself, and get them all onto a single CD. Practicing scales is great, but it doesn't mean much in the long run if you can't take that knowledge and put it to practical use.
2) I need to sit down and evaluate my playing as if I were a student coming to take lessons from myself. It takes a bit to wrap your head around that statement, but once I did, it made a lot of sense to me. What would/will I hear in my own playing that, as a teacher, I could change or improve? How would I explain the things that I struggle with to someone else who was having the same issue? These are the questions I need to be asking myself as I strive, each day, to get better.
On some level, it's just nice to be getting all of these thoughts down in one place. I've been assembling them all in a notebook, and it's definitely inching its way closer to full.
Kept going with the Stephen Kellogg disc in the car today. It's an extremely consistent record, mostly acoustic in nature, but not "quiet" by any means. Really enjoying it.
All told, a really good day with a few positive steps forward. The Acuff adventure starts Monday. I'm going to try and get all of my ducks in a row by the end of the weekend.
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