Plucking Away

 Not a lot of news in practice land.

I am still plugging away  there are a couple of pieces that I am struggling to master so I have made myself play these  at the beginning of each session.

I went through the frustrated , never going to get this.  The chord death grip approach and then  relaxed into the tune and guess what - about a month after setting myself the challenge, I was note perfect on the first piece last week and today  I hit the second piece on the first attempt this morning.

Chuffed to bits !!

Oh and the secret ?  Always finish your session with a fun play along piece !!

A Tune a Day

 So  the holidays have come and gone.

With COVID this years were a little flat but that still didnt stop the usual family chaos and games. It did make it really hard to find time to pick up the guitar though I wanted to most days.

After a 10 day break it was a little hard to pick it up but soo glad I did.  I found a fun easy tune (7 Nation Army) and had a blast.  The following day I  had no such struggle to get stuck in.

A week later and I'm practicing hard again on a challenging chord progression (horrible F!! ) and finishing with 20 minutes of fun.

Its true what they say - play every day - it makes progress so much easier.  

Double whammy !

I am really enjoying playing at the minute.

Something seems to click every time I pick up my guitar.  Granted they are only small things but sooo satisfying.

Last week Yousician threw me a curve ball - Fingerpicking.  Ah I want to play metal I dont want to mess with that rubbish..... Then I thought then I went back and tried.

It takes a little time but once you get the "dance" steps in your fingers it is really quite fun and sounds awesome.  I will be doing more of this.

I'm also working on Steve Steins Fretboard Mastery stage 1 and its going well.  I wasnt really happy with the meandering - I use Hydrogen for an interesting drum beat over a click metronome but YAWN!

Then I discovered a couple of backing tracks in the right key and tempo - Instant music - really happy and really tempts you to do more than just wander up and down scales.

Soo then I get to thinking and researching and today my pedalboard got another upgrade.  Now it will loop too.  I can lay down layers to noodle and play with.  Its going to take a little learning to really get used to the software but another fun musical event.

I'm using Mobius from CircleLabs as the brain of my Looper.  This little app runs on my laptop for now with all the control mapped to my pedalboard.   Happy Christmas to me !!