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Post by Phil on Mar 3, 2019 8:39:38 GMT -6
I can't believe another week has passed already. I got about 8.5 hours. 3 of those were spent playing with another guitarist and I'm counting that as practice. It's not the kind of practice where you're focused on perfecting a technique or repeating a difficult lick. However, it's still a form of practice because we're still working stuff out. In other words, we're not "playing" together just yet. At this point we're practicing together. Recently I've been watching videos of Jazz guitarists who get together with no rehearsal and sound like they've been playing together everyday for months. One in particular was 3 guitars and a bass. Two other guitarists joined them for a couple of songs. That's 5 guitarists who don't regularly play together and it sounded great. They didn't step on each other even once. It's incredible how they're able to do that. You can learn a lot just by watching top level guitarists play together. Now if I could just play half as good as they do I'd be set.
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Post by jack1982 on Mar 3, 2019 9:13:29 GMT -6
Typical week for me, didn't touch a guitar. I'll have to get back into it one of these days, maybe I'll re-learn one of those old Van Halen tunes I used to love when I first started out. "Women in Love" was a favorite.
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Post by grampalerxst on Mar 3, 2019 9:48:06 GMT -6
Another slim week for me. Five or six hours. Finally started the proper intro to Pride and Joy. Getting the intonation on the middle set of double stops is a challenge. Interestingly, the 2nd fret bend on the G-string isn't so bad. Wasn't so long ago that bending up a whole step from that fret was a non-starter for me. Even though I'm still at only a fraction of full tempo with Electric Gypsy, I keep getting better at the fast lick on the third repeat. Gradually getting more deliberate and precise, especially with the pick.
Jack--that's a song I haven't thought about in decades!
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Post by bluesbruce on Mar 3, 2019 9:57:13 GMT -6
Wow - actually played my guitar for a change. Been kind of on a rock n roll bent, but also been playing "Sweet Home Chicago" from the Hal Leonard Blues Play Along. I figure that's not a bad blues song to learn. Been playing with Stetina's "Total Rock Guitar" again. There's lots of good material in that book - just like in BYCU. It's a very similar format - some discussion, some exercises, then a musical piece bringing it together. Like BYCU, no included backing tracks without the guitar (which is a big negative in my book). On the other hand, trying to make your own backing is probably not a bad practice in musicality in some ways.
Well, enough ranting. Here's a clip of Johnnie Lee Hooker and Van Morrison playing some killer blues - you need to skip to about 5:00 minutes, then prepared to be awed. If you're not moved by this, well, I don't think all the BYCU in the world is gonna help!
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Post by cunningr on Mar 4, 2019 12:50:28 GMT -6
Hi all, this weeks practice is about zero. Have a network engineer on site and we’re upgrading my network so lots of long hours. Did go to class mad progress on Floyd’s Blues.
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