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.
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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