Wednesday November 26, 2008: Electric lead

Today's focus is electric lead. Goals include:

• pentatonic scales, both minor and major
• Riff Interactive - Blues Solo Riffs: Lesson 1, Blues solo in A

Accomplished:

• major pentatonic in A, up and down the neck, all positions
• minor pentatonic in A, up and down the neck, all positions
• integrate major and minor pentatonics in A, position 1
• Riff Interactive - Blues Solo Riffs: Lesson 1, Blues solo in A x4

Also:

• Under the Bridge

Tuesday November 25, 2008: A New Plan

Alright, my practice sessions have been all over the place lately, and that's partly because I haven't been logging anything. I see my last entry was over 20 days ago, but it was sketchy for some time before that. So, lately I've been doing a little of this and a little of that, pretty much every day. I'm thinking that the new plan is to pick one area to concentrate on per day. Obviously I will not be bound by that one area per day, but I feel I should concentrate on each day's focus first, get it out of the way, then be free to practice whatever I want.

Here are the basic areas:

• Singing with acoustic accompaniment
• Acoustic techniques: rhythm, lead
• Electric techniques: rhythm, lead
• Slide guitar

Today's focus is singing/acoustic accompaniment:

• Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain x2
• Hey There Delilah x2
• Society x2
• Me & Bobby McGee x2
• Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down x2
• In The News x2
• All Our Past Times x2 (having trouble hitting high notes in chorus)
• Long Black Veil x2
• It Ain't Me Babe x2
• Jealous Man x2

Tuesday November 4, 2008: Slidin' Like Ry

Learning Feelin' Bad Blues in open-D tuning has of course inspired me to open up the "Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics" (by David Hamburger) lesson-book again, so lately, in addition to Feelin' Bad Blues I've been doing a whole lot of:

• The Cover-up (p. 45 in nav-panel)
• Better Late Than Never (p. 48)
• Slidin' and Frettin' (p. 52)