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Post by jack1982 on Feb 5, 2023 7:46:02 GMT -6
I guess I had an okay week. Was busy with other stuff at the start of the week but managed to get in a couple of decent practice sessions the last two days. Just working on "Rock of Ages" by Def Leppard. The solo is a bit hard to figure out as there's a bunch of delay which obscures what he's playing, and there's all kinds of rhythm guitar stuff going on which makes it even harder to make out. So I'm just noodling around in E pentatonic minor hoping to stumble upon something that sounds similar lol. The rhythm guitar has plenty of layered stuff - one guitar plays some slides and then plays a chord on the "1," then another guitar playing the main riff covers the "e-and-a." It's a challenge to get the similar - but different - timing done correctly for both. The main riff plays double-stops in a staccato fashion, and I've been experimenting with fingerpicking those as placing my picking fingers back on the stings to play the next double-stop does a nice job of muting the previous one, and has a nice clean sound to it.
Anyhow, work continues. Hope you guys are all doing well!
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Post by wannaplayblues on Feb 5, 2023 8:46:28 GMT -6
Good week - 6 days of practice and two recordings Added another book to the practice schedule (as previosuly mentioned) so it's BYCU; BRYCU; 'Solo Blues Guitar' and '12-Bar Blues Solos' as well as an AM piece - so plenty to do each day with about 20mins spent on each one. Added to that, my music reading is improving slightly, though struggling to remember the notes on the low-E string as written (there are lots of ledger-lines for them which is confusing). Music theory is moving quite slowly (as I expected) which is fine - it's the book I grab at the end of the day to read and work through the exercise which do not require an instrument - and the listening exercises are all mp3s. Basically, I'm happy with how things are going and hope to record the next BRYCU this week!
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Post by Phil on Feb 5, 2023 20:41:28 GMT -6
Just got back late Friday night from a trip to Europe. I'm seriously jet-lagged and haven't picked up the guitar yet. It's been 3 weeks. I plan on playing a bit later today.
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Post by bluesbruce on Feb 6, 2023 14:50:33 GMT -6
Sorry to be a day late... We've had a long weekend trip down to Destin, Florida, so my wife and her brother could finally place their mother's ashes into the Gulf of Mexico (she passed a little over a year ago). So I'll only have 4 days off versus Phil's three weeks. Hope that has given your fingertip time to cool down, Phil. I'll make it home tonight, and it is supposed to rain and turn colder again, so I'll really try to record some BRYCU to see if I can possibly keep up with WPB!
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Post by Phil on Feb 11, 2023 8:18:27 GMT -6
Sorry to be a day late... We've had a long weekend trip down to Destin, Florida, so my wife and her brother could finally place their mother's ashes into the Gulf of Mexico (she passed a little over a year ago). So I'll only have 4 days off versus Phil's three weeks. Hope that has given your fingertip time to cool down, Phil. I'll make it home tonight, and it is supposed to rain and turn colder again, so I'll really try to record some BRYCU to see if I can possibly keep up with WPB! There's no keeping up with WPB. He's a machine.
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