Question: What are you practicing?

tiger roach said:
These days most of my practice time is spent working on country blues fingerpicking ditties on the acoustic.

I have been meaning to spend some time boning up on some some more technical stuff and grow as a musician a little, because that would feel really good. For this purpose, I have pulled out my copy of the Expanded Blues Guitar by Mr. Mark Wein. Which I recently had to re-buy because my original copy got mixed up with a stack of books Mrs. Roach gave away, but that’s a story for another time. :mad:
Click to expand...
Someone got a good book for free.
 
Removing rust off of my alternate picking, mainly with a cool exercise a friend showed me,
trying to find a picking hand position that'll work.

I need to work on my bass playing.
Visited a friend/writing partner this weekend, we started to develop a tone row we wrote several months ago.
We are not interested in strictly following the rules of dodecaphony, and neither of us has
enough knowledge of those rules to follow them strictly.

I recently wrote music for a friend's text, she like it but said she'd rather if I'll try performing it.
Trying to figure out what to do with it (together with the aforementioned writing partner).
 
It has to be like...80% percent wrong notes and the same wrong notes repeatedly, obnoxiously.

Then when you get back to your root to resolve it, you gotta smash it. Big vibrato. Full send.
 
reverend1 said:
Ok, here's some blues improvising in A. Trying to add some more chromatic stuff and break out of the pentatonic box. Also, I've been told t play fearlessly and not to worry about wrong notes. I think i succeeded because there's a lot of wrong ones in here.

Click to expand...


Not electric guitar music, but the guy from the Milk Carton kids does a bang up job with that chromatic out of key thing.
 


We talkin' about practice? (can't believe this hasn't been posted yet :grin:)

Honestly I don't practice I play songs (poorly mostly because I don't practice). But I would probably quit playing if I didn't. I've been trying to learn some new songs recently rather than just playing what I know. My latest obsession has been Whitehorse but I need to find some other stuff soon
 
Mrs. Mike Sr. being home last week has chewed into my practicing. She is not a fan of the two amp/stereo configuration I cream over because of her gentle ears and so I have to turn down and keep an eye for the the "look" from her.

For the last couple of weeks I've been tweaking a sound for Purple Haze and Can't You Hear Me Knocking with fuzz pedals, EQ, and an octaver. I've been playing Run-Around by Blue Traveler (by the way that's a long ass song if you play it all) and Only Want to Be with You by Hootie & Company and laying lead tracks over it so it follows the harmony of the singer and not just lead notes to have lead notes. In between it's a constant jam of ZZ Top sounds over a variety of blues backing tracks of my own or others I have. I going to try some of yours (Marks) soon and listened to several yesterday through out the day.
 
DinoMikeSr said:
Mrs. Mike Sr. being home last week has chewed into my practicing. She is not a fan of the two amp/stereo configuration I cream over because of her gentle ears and so I have to turn down and keep an eye for the the "look" from her.

For the last couple of weeks I've been tweaking a sound for Purple Haze and Can't You Hear Me Knocking with fuzz pedals, EQ, and an octaver. I've been playing Run-Around by Blue Traveler (by the way that's a long ass song if you play it all) and Only Want to Be with You by Hootie & Company and laying lead tracks over it so it follows the harmony of the singer and not just lead notes to have lead notes. In between it's a constant jam of ZZ Top sounds over a variety of blues backing tracks of my own or others I have. I going to try some of yours (Marks) soon and listened to several yesterday through out the day.
Click to expand...
I’ve got some harp players I’ll be happy to give you. No need to return them.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top