What are you practicing this week?

Fingerstyle Milestones a new course on TrueFire by Tommy Emmanuel. I was hoping it might help me learn to use the thumb pick but I'm still finding that very awkward
 
A bunch of guitar solos I didn't plan on having to play...

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Rocksmith is consuming my practice time....I've turned my amp on once in the last week.

But I'm have fun and learning new songs :thu: so it's exactly what I was hoping it would be since I felt I was playing the same stuff over and over again
 
I'm working on switching between chords and single note lines in the context of solo guitar. Still working on swing rhythm too.
 
I'm really just practicing tempering my alcoholism enough to deliver the bullshit show we played today. I think I succeeded.
 
Just developing some melodies. It's a routine for me that never gets old because it's always growing and challenging.
 
The other thing I am practising is trying to do slow chord tone soloing.

Mo pointed me in the direction of a major chord sequence backing track, which has proved fiendishly difficult to be melodic with.

 
GreenAsJade said:
The other thing I am practising is trying to do slow chord tone soloing.

Mo pointed me in the direction of a major chord sequence backing track, which has proved fiendishly difficult to be melodic with.

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I like that one. Might have to give it a try...I think one thing to consider is to try and play a super simple melody through the harder changes by just moving to the next closest possible note in the next chord without trying to play all of the chord tones in the next chord.
 
Anecdotal - Chord melody (playing the chord notes as the rhythm with simultaneous bass and lead embellishment) is the entire premise for fingerstyle and the reason I moved away from the regular flat pick. Still needing a flatpick for certain phrasings, I developed the use of the blade on a thumb pick for that. A slight twist of the wrist, for attack, and bringing the index finger against the thumb pick blade gives me exactly the same feel as a regular flat pick. Nothing being instant, it took a while to develop it. Most of that period was dismissing the idea and feel of the thumb pick pinch band around my thumb. Mind over matter. I use a Planet Waves large tortoise. For strummy stuff the Fred Kelly light (yellow Delrin) Slick Pick is great. I never lose a flatpick while playing anymore.
 
Mark Wein said:
I like that one. Might have to give it a try...
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I think one thing to consider is to try and play a super simple melody through the harder changes by just moving to the next closest possible note in the next chord without trying to play all of the chord tones in the next chord.
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Heh heh! That's exactly what Mo said to me! I don't know if you made it to the end, but when the Gb arrives, I paniced and just lept to the first Gb I could find, which was miles away and didn't sound good at all, doh!

GaJ
 
GreenAsJade said:
The BT is here: https://app.box.com/shared/53a8sjjx66xda0herqkd



Heh heh! That's exactly what Mo said to me! I don't know if you made it to the end, but when the Gb arrives, I paniced and just lept to the first Gb I could find, which was miles away and didn't sound good at all, doh!

GaJ
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Thats the thing with learning to play with target tones instead of just spraying a scale around...it becomes too easy to just aim for the note that you know instead of the note that would make sense melodically. I start doing that when I play jazz tunes at quicker tempos....
 
Learning some new (to me) standards for a gig coming up, along with getting familiar enough to solo on their changes. The first step will be putting down the synthesizers and picking the guitar back up. Too much multitasking lately.
 
Practicing the transition from lead singer/rhythm guitarist to lead singer/lead guitarist, while the new guy settles into rhythm mode.

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This week is going through the set list for next week's gigs.

Only new stuff I'm working on is "You and I Both" by Jason Mraz, and apparently I need to learn "Happy" by Pharrell now. @reverend1 :helper:
 
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