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Post by grampalerxst on Mar 15, 2020 4:34:05 GMT -6
I had a covid-19 related injury that caused me to curb my guitar time this week. With all the "don't touch your face" advice I realized that if I'm going to touch my face, it's extremely likely to be with my right hand, so I've been going around with my right hand stuck in my pocket and opening doors with my left. Further, I'd been trying to open them using one finger and grabbing handles in ergonomically suboptimal places where other people are probably not touching them. As a result I strained a couple LH tendons. But it didn't take long to recover and I'm fine now. I just reduced guitar time for two days.
Otherwise things are going good. I seem to be getting better at all the things I'm working on which is encouraging because I've narrowed the list down such that everything I'm working on presents challenges in areas I'm weak. The biggest one is several variations of arpeggios that really challenge my picking hand accuracy. Also I'm spending much of my time in areas of the neck I've never been completely comfortable with, both in terms of positions and string combinations.
Quite a lot of craziness out there in the world right now. I hope no one has been too adversely affected by the virus. I know several of us, me included, are in the low end of the elevated risk group by age. Let's all use common sense precautions and look out for our health. My state just reported its first confirmed cases, including one in an adjacent county, late last week so it's a safe bet you won't find me a Guitar Center trying out guitars randomly pulled down from the wall. Since I'm an introvert with nearly as many guitars as IRL friends, a shutdown of my workplace and social distancing/quarantining is something I'm genetically predisposed to tolerate, but potential loss of income this close to retirement is bothersome.
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Post by Marc on Mar 15, 2020 4:54:36 GMT -6
I had a covid-19 related injury that caused me to curb my guitar time this week. With all the "don't touch your face" advice I realized that if I'm going to touch my face, it's extremely likely to be with my right hand, so I've been going around with my right hand stuck in my pocket and opening doors with my left. Further, I'd been trying to open them using one finger and grabbing handles in ergonomically suboptimal places where other people are probably not touching them. As a result I strained a couple LH tendons. But it didn't take long to recover and I'm fine now. I just reduced guitar time for two days. That sucks. I hope you get feeling better quick.
I got some good practice time this week and felt like i am getting some progress lesson 9 doing the slow version. still struggling with a few bars but it will come together. I've been struggling with some insomnia lately and have been playing electric unplugged so i don't wake up the house.
I dug into my pile of guitar books, mostly inspired by this youtube guitar teacher Levi Clay and his series of books you must own. It's been kind of fun. It's kind of like pictures of where you have gone as a player. It got me thinking of maybe doing what blackcountrymick did posting videos of his progress (https://bluesyoucanuse.freeforums.net/thread/264/micks-blues-use-progress-log), it's a better measuring stick.
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Post by jack1982 on Mar 15, 2020 5:58:59 GMT -6
I didn't get much playing time in last week, busy with other stuff and had my Strat taken apart for a couple of days putting the new pickguard on. Ran out to a couple of home improvement stores looking for some thin wire to use in the project, ended up getting an ethernet cable, taking it apart, sticking the X-acto knife into my fingertip, taking the wires out of it and using those. Then a few hours later I was digging through my closet, looking for 2 mic' cables that have mysteriously disappeared, and found a whole spool of wire which would have worked perfectly  Anyhow, still working on that "challenge", learning some more Albert King licks. The hardest part is that he just counts them out and then you're supposed to play them along with the backing track, but taking 1-and-2-and-3-and-4-and and equating that to the backing track...well it's do-able but it's not my usual way of doing things so it's very time consuming. I'm happy with the way my new Lace Sensor pickups sound, so that's cool. It's weird having no idea what's going on in the world because other than that virus, the other 99.999% of the stuff going on isn't being reported. Oh well, strange world we live in I guess. |
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Post by bluesbruce on Mar 15, 2020 6:06:59 GMT -6
Been practicing some social distancing all week myself, resulting in actually picking up the guitar a few times! (and not going to the gym even once). Having to work this weekend, so probably no playing again today. Hope everyone has a good week!
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Post by Phil on Mar 15, 2020 8:25:34 GMT -6
I got a new course this week that I pre-ordered 4 months ago. Truefire really jumped the gun on this pre-order. It's a finger style solo guitar Jazz course. My plan is to just work on it 20-30 minutes a day and take it very slow. No more rushing thru a course and getting little to nothing out of it. Also, instead of constantly learning new stuff and absorbing little of it, I've been focusing on improving what I already know. And I have a lot that can be improved.  |
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Post by cunningr on Mar 15, 2020 23:50:13 GMT -6
Hi all well I am on lock down, 3000 euro fine for not complying with stay home rules. This virus is serious so everyone stay safe as most of us are in the high risk group. If you havent stock up a couple weeks of supplies.
As far as guitar goes, we covered the intro solos on chill out, need to practice some more, since I had my wife trapped at home took opportunity to prime the living room wall.
I will try to put together a challenge for us using that rythm from Chill Out, and couple examplesmy instructor had me using a pretty cool major scale trick over the minor chord rhythm.
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