What are you currently working on?

AdamLopez

AdamLopez

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I enjoy hearing what people are working on. Skills, licks, techniques, etc.

One of my immediate goals is to nail down some tunes in my own fingerstyle/chord melody/solo guitar instrumental kind of way.

I've started recording demos for a guitar album I'd like to do, so I'm stepping up my practice to focus on certain areas of composition and melody.

Working on Chet's "Young Thing" as an exercise as well as getting acquainted with Guitar Pro 6 as I'd like to write actual charts for these solo instrumentals I'm currently writing. Mostly in an attempt to better my understanding of proper notation as well improve my reading skills.

Also using GP6 to chart out some covers I've been working up as solo pieces.

What's abouts yous?
 
I was just playing with the metronome...basics...

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Chord chemistry, Hollywood fats licks and my picking technique this week...


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Learning how to record on the PC..so doing lots of experiments with amp sims, effects etc.

I'm working on a bunch of rhythmic ideas with my lead playing too..deliberately not playing on the "1" or any other beat I choose..trying to move behind the beat, ahead of the beat and dead on at will..that's pretty fun.

And, sweep picking...2 or 3 octave arpeggios with tapping added...just 'cos it's fun. :)
 
Aside from the sanity thing, I'm just trying to get my hands back in shape and play around the stiffness. A lot of the bigger chord stretches I used to play are just really difficult to execute smoothly and my fingers "hang" on pull-off heavy passages.
 
Mostly shred stuff e.g. sweep picking,multi finger tapping, also playing in time with the metronome. I'm getting pretty good at 8 finger tapping, just trying to find a way to maintain control of the pick when I use the fingers.
 
MuyLoCo444 said:
Mostly shred stuff e.g. sweep picking,multi finger tapping, also playing in time with the metronome. I'm getting pretty good at 8 finger tapping, just trying to find a way to maintain control of the pick when I use the fingers.
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Cool!..I'm rubbish at this. I was trying to learn Jeff Watson's solo in "You can still rock in america" as a way of practising 8 finger tapping..sounded like a car crash :lol:
 
I will have a bunch of songs to learn in the new band, plus I am playing some lead in this one so that has to get better. Fairly soon I'll probably have to learn a couple specific leads note for note - or at least enough to get the signature licks in on them.

I was specifically just looking at 'Oh Pretty Woman' by Albert King. I love the cool rhythm pattern in the song and was looking at the TAB for his leads. Pretty much straight G minor pentatonic scale - but awesome phrasing. Now I need to listen to the song a bunch more....
 
Just started a Blues Class with Tom Harkenrider. Concentrating on playing the "lump" feel a little behind the beat. Tom asked us to look into Shake Dancer by Little Walter to hear all the different guitar parts.

On my own, I am trying to learn Magic Sam's "I Feel Good." Sort of an amped-up John Lee Hooker riff.
 
Just working on tunes for the Variety Band I am now playing in. Had to relearn to skank for my funk chops, strum for modern country, along with extra training to deciphir parts. As for technique, I like to work on sequences of 3, 4 and occasionally 5 over diatonic scales. Continue to blend Lydian b7 and the Altered Scale over Dom7 type chords. Need to really hear the structure. I will also go through two string arps across 6 strings - minor, major triads and two stringed maj7, min7, dom7 over six strings.

I really gotta working on improving my Rockabilly and Travis picking.
 
mosiddiqi said:
Cool!..I'm rubbish at this. I was trying to learn Jeff Watson's solo in "You can still rock in america" as a way of practising 8 finger tapping..sounded like a car crash :lol:
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Yeah, I'm surprised I learned the physical aspect of it as quick as I did. I practiced on my acoustic and then went over to the electric which obviously is easier with the action low. Still have to work on the right hand little finger though.
 
Well... After 30 years of playing habits, I'm learning to break out of playing in a particular "key", and working a lot on chord tone solos and riffs... I used to get overwhelmed with trying to memorize the entire fretboard for whatever scale I was playing, and now I'm getting far more comfortable playing various modes and scales from wherever I currently am on the fret board, using the two strings per scale approach, and letting my ear decide what mode or scale I want to play, and not just blindly hit the "dots" on the fretboard...
 
paulskirocks said:
Well... After 30 years of playing habits, I'm learning to break out of playing in a particular "key", and working a lot on chord tone solos and riffs... I used to get overwhelmed with trying to memorize the entire fretboard for whatever scale I was playing, and now I'm getting far more comfortable playing various modes and scales from wherever I currently am on the fret board, using the two strings per scale approach, and letting my ear decide what mode or scale I want to play, and not just blindly hit the "dots" on the fretboard...
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Smaller chunks are always more workable for me.
 
Today will be all about review for my gig tonight. We have such a large song list that I still don't feel in command of much of the music.
 
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