Weekly update Jan 26, 2020

Bad week for me, busy with everything else except guitar playing. Actually I guess that makes it an "average" week lol.  Those two stereo speakers I got for Christmas multiplied into a surround sound system, and I didn't want speaker wires running all over the living room floor so I routed them through the floor into the basement, which is finished so I had to install a bunch of those wire channels to hide the wires along the top edges of the walls.  Surprisingly time consuming 



I built the speaker stands myself too lol.  

Anyhow on the guitar front, I worked a bit on switching between minor and major scales while improvising over a 12 bar blues backing track - this week's project will be to expand from box 1 to box 2. I tend to play up and down the fretboard, as opposed to staying in one position, so I think that will make it much more suitable for my habits.

I hope to get into that new "Modern Blues Soloing" course a bit more, I'm just watching the videos at this point. The first lesson was the "composite" blues scale and lydian and mixolydian modes, lesson 2 gets straight into the half-whole diminished scale, then it's altered dominant and lydian dominant scales. Yeah, I should have that all learned by the end of the week 

Jack, you're right - we should be better at checking in...

I've had a couple of lessons in a new class, where we are four students together. I signed up mainly to play with other people, and I have a feeling it's going to be good. It involves transcribing and working on our favorite songs, so I will work on "Need your love so bad" for next week.

I also slowly started to build up/dust off my chord vocabulary to jump into the Joe Pass book - I plan to take irregular lesson with John working on that book. Maybe it's too much, I'll see...