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Post by jack1982 on Jul 16, 2023 5:37:52 GMT -6
I had a decent week, been practicing a bit more - only ten days to finish "Unchained" before the next fixit session. Got the rhythm part going pretty well, though ten more days to polish it up will be much appreciated. The main solo, well I just changed the way I play it (there is a tapping part I was playing on the 2nd fret B string but I moved it to the 6trh fret G), so that's slowing me down until I really get it under my fingers. And the outro solo, I think I had that up to 83% tempo yesterday. It's kind of down in the mix and hard to make out, so I look at the tabs (lol), the guys giving lessons on YouTube, and the cover versions and kind pick and choose which bits sound right. I haven't bought a new guitar in ages, and I've got a birthday coming up next month, so...this should be arriving tomorrow   |
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Post by bluesbruce on Jul 16, 2023 7:25:06 GMT -6
Cool new guitar, Jack. I had a pretty slow week guitar-wise, just had a thousand things going on, and now in Denver visiting my brother. Then headed to Breckenridge for a few days in the mountains (with high temps in the 70's!).
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Post by joachim on Jul 16, 2023 11:25:20 GMT -6
What a beautiful guitar, Jack! I haven't bought gear in a while - was trying to swap my Fender Stratocaster for a Les Paul Goldtop on a forum for second-hand guitars, but the other guy hasn't made up his mind yet. I am in Norway with the kids right now, but have an old guitar stashed in the cottage, so I managed to get in some practice time. Working on Clapton's solo for Autumn Leaves, transposing it to Em (as the Real Book version) and using what I like. Also doing some arpeggio exercises over Autumn Leaves, which is kind of a throw-back to lessons several 3-4 years ago with John. If only I had done what he told me  I've also been doing a few exercises on chord drilling for Jared's Youtube channel. I started that out of necessity, because my rhythm playing with the band can a bit boring for tunes that sit on the same chord for a long time, so I want to add some inversions into my playing. Jared has an interesting way to remember inversions. He anchors each voicing to the chord arpeggios on the 5th and 6th strings, e.g., moving around the top part of the arpeggio in position I, you memorize a chord voicing with same bottom as the arpeggio note. That actually seems like good way of remembering all the voicing, and it makes you conscious about the bottom note for each voicing. The full course is not free, though, and kind of expensive, so I am just playing around with the free lesson. |
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Post by Phil on Jul 16, 2023 18:34:53 GMT -6
I'm still practicing the same stuff. However, I'm not putting in the necessary time. For whatever strange reason whenever I get serious about exercising the guitar gets pushed to the back. One has nothing to do with the other. They don't conflict with each other in any way, but it's always been that way with me. I need to change that. On a positive note I have been doing my kettlebell exercises consistently. Joachim: do you have a link to the lesson about inversions you described? |
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Post by joachim on Jul 17, 2023 0:11:17 GMT -6
Phil, here's a link to the lesson.
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Post by Phil on Jul 17, 2023 18:16:28 GMT -6
Thanks for the link, Joachim.
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Post by Phil on Jul 18, 2023 21:54:06 GMT -6
Joachim,
I just watched the lesson on chord inversions. I got a lot out of it. I've always worked on inversions linearly going up the neck with the Root, 3, 5, 7 on the same string. I never thought to practice them with the lowest note on different strings which allows you to stay in one area of the neck.
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Post by joachim on Jul 19, 2023 5:16:58 GMT -6
Phil, that was exactly my experience also. And it was always hit-and-miss by a half-tone, if I played the right inversion.
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