What are you working on? (practice-wise)

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Markk

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So my summer officially started today with the finishing of some pretty important exams (went quite well by the way) and I decided that this summer will be devoted to improving my music skills.

And so I've started the following:
Learning Key to the Highway - Clapton and BB King version
Paganini's Capprices op. 1 nr. 5 - I'm aiming for 100bpm, currently I'm comfortable with the first 1/4 of it at 60bpm (what the sheet/tab music has as the tempo)
Learning dominant scales

You guys have any plans? Or maybe tips?
 
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I just strung a guitar upside down (eBGDAE) and I'm learning to play it that way --- really fun, hard, and I'm making a lot of new voicings that are cool.

I will keep you guys updated as I learn more.

Cheers!
 
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I'm going to try and learn a full album by ear
Learn Electric Ladyland (the whole album by Tab ;) )
Go through this Blues Improv book I have
Finish 5 original songs
 
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BTW Markk you should learn some Peter Green. The only white man that ever gave BB the chills.
 
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ImmortalSix said:
I just strung a guitar upside down (eBGDAE) and I'm learning to play it that way --- really fun, hard, and I'm making a lot of new voicings that are cool.

I will keep you guys updated as I learn more.

Cheers!
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That seems very intriguing.... I always wanted to learn guitar left handed...
 
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Completing preproduction on my band's next album.
 
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writing new music, working on getting the show together so we can go out on the road, promoting and marketing our album..... tons of things.
 
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Andrew Lamprecht said:
I'm going to try and learn a full album by ear
Learn Electric Ladyland (the whole album by Tab ;) )
Go through this Blues Improv book I have
Finish 5 original songs
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Ah, yes. Forgot about this. I've got Smash Hits (Hendrix), Riding with the King, and Apetite for Destruction tab books. I really should get around to learning the whole albums as I've only really tried one or two songs half assed from these books.
 
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Andrew Lamprecht said:
BTW Markk you should learn some Peter Green. The only white man that ever gave BB the chills.
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Hmmm, going to have to check out some more stuff. Just had a quick listen to 'Jumping at Shadows'. Thanks for the heads up
 
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I'm working on not losing so many pics. I still have much to learn.

Also, I'm striving to finish writing and recording a song that's been clogging my brain for a couple of years. I know that once I get it recorded I'll be able to move forward with some musical styles that are more interesting to me now than this vintage thing that's haunting me and crippling my creativity.


Edit: Practise-wise ......... nothing.
 
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I'll be working on purchasing releases from TwilightOdyssey and sosomething. lucky if I can pick up my axe beyond that.
 
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I've been working on my alterant picking and also strengthening my left hand fingers. Especially the pinky.

I do the Steve Morse thing going from low E to high E and then back down again, alternate picking 3 notes on each string with the first 3 fingers. Then do the same thing with the last 3 fingers.

The first string is picked down-up-down, and every other string is picked up-down-up, which is uncomfortable, but gets easier with practice.

Go all the way up the board. This has really helped a bunch already, and I haven't been doing it that long
 
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Working on more modal licks and getting more disciplined with metronome practice
 
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I'm working on learning "Sunshine of Your Love", and I'm deciding on a guitar I want to keep in E-flat so I can learn "Over the Mountain" and those other down-tuned Randy songs.
 
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Lazarus1140 said:
I'm working on not losing so many pics. I still have much to learn.
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Edit: Practise-wise ......... nothing.
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We all have to start some where right? And not losing picks is a pretty good place (unless you mean pics as in electronic pictures taken by a digital camera) ;)
 
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Just finished writing and have started preproduction on my new bands debut full-length.

Starting production on another bands debut full-length this weekend.

Editing drums for an OK-based hardcore band's 7 track EP this week.

In the process of editing/mixing/mastering a local bands debut full-length right now.

Quite busy on the production side of things! Once I get the two full-length's and EP finished, I'll be building a new computer, some nice mic preamps, and some GSSL/1176 clones for use on my band's LP.
 
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I am working on alternate picking and acquiring a better flow in my passages... Working on sweep picking and combining that with slides for arpegiating chords... also going to work on waves by Guthry
 
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Markk said:
Hmmm, going to have to check out some more stuff. Just had a quick listen to 'Jumping at Shadows'. Thanks for the heads up
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Is that 'Jumping At Shadows' by Duster Bennett (who wrote it I think) ? Or is that the F Mac version ?

Duster (Tony) Bennett was a friend of Peter Green and Fleetwod Mac and often gigged with them .... He was a one-man band, and used the Mac as his backing band on the 'Smiling Like I'm Happy' album, which featured the song Jumping At Shadows. Duster had an awesome voice, and I was lucky enough to see him live.
 
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Arpeggios (maj, min, maj7th, dom7th, min7th, min6th, dim 7th) . . . finding and playing them from anywhere on the neck, getting used to how they sound against different chords, improvising with them over fast chord progressions. I'm trying to get away from the blues rock pentatonic thing that has been my default for the last few years.

Also learning a few things that I've always liked but never got around to: Skynyrd's 'I know a Little', Hendrix's and Vaughn's versions of 'Little Wing', Solos to Megadeth's 'Symphony of Destruction' and Satriani's 'Surfing with the Alien'.
 
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GuitarStv said:
.... I'm trying to get away from the blues rock pentatonic thing that has been my default for the last few years. ....
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ditto. I'm really getting tired of my own lead playing because of this blues pentatonic rut I'm in. I have no problem mimicing other players who play all over the board, but I have no idea why those notes work in any particular key. It's frustrating. I don't want to pay a guitar instructor. I haven't taken lessons since I was in 5th grade in 1983/84. I'm sure there is a way I can learn this on my own. ....still working on it....
 
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