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Day Seventy Six (Year Four)

Another great music day.

Having spent yesterday mainly focused on lead playing for my practicing, I switched it up and spent tonight working on my rhythm playing.  Got to keep all areas of my playing sharp, after all. 

While I switched up the area of study, the method I used for my practicing was the same.  I've got a "Rock Guitar" DVD from GW that covers rhythm, soloing, and anything else that one could need to learn to make themselves a proficient rock guitarist.  I spent over an hour with it tonight, going through the multitude of examples that covered everything from 60's era rock up through Pantera-type heavy metal.  It was good to brush up on my sight reading of those styles.  I felt like I picked up the rhythm pretty well, although there were a few examples that could use a tad bit of brushing up.  For some reason, there isn't a metronome always sitting out in my studio (although one is always readily available).  I need to remedy that.  It's still the little things that trip me up a bit with the studio space.  Perhaps tomorrow I'll go through and fix all that stuff (the timer, the metronome, the books I initially put on shelves that really belong in my binder-related magazine files, etc).

Worked through lick #2 from week 2 in Guitar Aerobics tonight as well.  That one took a bit of getting used to.  It took a concept from last week's goal, and inverted the idea.  Not hard to grasp, but hard (at first) to get my fingers to go in reverse.  After a few minutes of getting used to it, though, it was no problem at all.

Still feeling really good.  And really confident about my playing.

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