snarf
making guitars wish they were still trees
I, also, am lucky most days to turn more than 20 or so minutes into real practice. My weekends are where I sit down and try to get in several 30 minute sessions. After getting to talk to Griff at the workshop in Allen last week, my current goal is to increase my blues vocabulary. So here's what I'm going to work on in the near future.
During the week when I only have 20 or 30 minutes total, I'm going to pull out the warm-ups from BSBB and Level 1 exercises. What I've worked on so far, Level 1 seems like I should be able to breeze through it, but I want to be sure and take the time to work through it correctly and don't rush it. In fact, I put it into the Practice Generator to be sure that, even if I think I'm doing a bang up job on it, I get at least 10 times through on it...even if I feel like I have it after 5. That way I am sure to have the licks under my fingers and in my head so that I remember them when I move on to level 2.
On the weekends, I'm going to continue the BSBB regimen and add to it picking a single lick from somewhere (this weekend will be either SRV or Billy Gibbons - haven't decided yet), and work to learn that lick. Then pull out the jam tracks and play that lick until Mrs Snarf is standing in the door of the music room with that look that says "play that lick again I dare you!"
During the week when I only have 20 or 30 minutes total, I'm going to pull out the warm-ups from BSBB and Level 1 exercises. What I've worked on so far, Level 1 seems like I should be able to breeze through it, but I want to be sure and take the time to work through it correctly and don't rush it. In fact, I put it into the Practice Generator to be sure that, even if I think I'm doing a bang up job on it, I get at least 10 times through on it...even if I feel like I have it after 5. That way I am sure to have the licks under my fingers and in my head so that I remember them when I move on to level 2.
On the weekends, I'm going to continue the BSBB regimen and add to it picking a single lick from somewhere (this weekend will be either SRV or Billy Gibbons - haven't decided yet), and work to learn that lick. Then pull out the jam tracks and play that lick until Mrs Snarf is standing in the door of the music room with that look that says "play that lick again I dare you!"