Members jbviper4 Posted April 29, 2008 Members Share Posted April 29, 2008 A good hour of scales and timing work last night, followed by general wankery over a blues track in A. I am finding that I need to learn some riffs to keep my interest level up. I am "in the box" 75% of the time, with some improvement of getting up and down the neck the other 25%. Does anyone have a good resource for nailing down some classic blues riffs, turnarounds, etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jbviper4 Posted May 11, 2008 Members Share Posted May 11, 2008 HEY, what happened? Doesn't anyone practice anymore? My neighbors and I had a five-hour impromptu jam yesterday by my buddie's pool. Two guitars, a marmonica, a singer and a boombox with backing tracks. Mostly three chord stuff, but we were figuring out songs by ear, laughing, quaffing beers, and generally having a ball. We all spent the winter inside practicing and it really paid off. Our wifes and friends usually find us to be pretty annoying, but yesterday they were singing along and having a ball. Maybe it was the beer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members simplestargazer Posted May 11, 2008 Members Share Posted May 11, 2008 That's it! Make room for me boys. After countless hours of wankery, I've finally decided that I'm serious this time. I will practice for at least 45 mins. a day. The metronome is coming out as well. Let's do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members simplestargazer Posted May 11, 2008 Members Share Posted May 11, 2008 Got my in my 45 mins. of practice. Worked mostly on playing the major scale in different keys to the metronome and some various finger excercises. I think I'll practice some more. It is really satisfying when you know you're doing something to improve, and that it's gonna pay off in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members simplestargazer Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Put in about an hour today. Played finger excercises with the metronome and ran through scales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jbviper4 Posted May 16, 2008 Members Share Posted May 16, 2008 Did two hours last night. All acoustic (out of town on biz, so I brought it along) - scales, songs, rythym work....trying to figure things out by ear... My fingers are getting really hard playing the acoustic all week... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phil47uk Posted May 16, 2008 Members Share Posted May 16, 2008 As I teach guitar all day every day. theoretically I must put in one hell of a load of hours. In the evening all I want to do is watch the TV.....LOL http://www.historiclespauls.com/index.php?action=showgallery&id=161&requesturi=%2Findex.php%3Faction%3Dshowmodel&model=%25&orderby=hits+DESC&volltext= . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stratfxdl Posted May 16, 2008 Members Share Posted May 16, 2008 I might as well join up. Last month I fixed up a room in my house just for playing and that seems to have helped me put in a little more time. I have the Blues You Can Use book and I've been working through that. I also have a blues book/cd that has the song with the guitar part and then without. I try to do one or the other or both each day. Also some scale work. I like to play some metal so I work on down picking the E string and power chords too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rainvalorx Posted May 19, 2008 Members Share Posted May 19, 2008 I have been very busy lately, so I haven't posted in a while, but I'm still practicing quite a bit, so much so that the wife gets angry cause thats all I do lately. I'm actually playing out with my brother's band this saturday, well its at a memorial day picnic, but to me thats playing out, LOL. They've got 12 songs they are playing but I've written parts to 4 of them so I've been practicing those quite a bit since I'll be jammin those 4 out with them. I've also been keeping up with scales and what not. I had to drop 1 on 1 lessons, but I'm keeping up with online and dvd lessons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jbviper4 Posted May 26, 2008 Members Share Posted May 26, 2008 Jammed for a couple of hours with my neighbors last night - singer, 2nd guitar and a harmonica player....figured out a bunch of three-chord wonders by ear...so that counts as practice for me. I plan to do a couple of hours of scales and timing practice later today.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members asp1ring_r0cker Posted May 26, 2008 Members Share Posted May 26, 2008 Been awhile since I posted on this thread. I just bought a book, Guitar Chord Bible by Phil Capone that shows over 500 illustrated chords for all types of musical tastes. The last couple nights have been spent of me going to different pages and learning how to play different chords. In my Hal Leonard book, I am also spending time during practice learning to do a chord progression strumming from C to C7 to C etc. Are there any other easy chord progressions I can learn? Also during my time that I been practicing, I have been working on the first part of Wipeout using a book that has The Ventures' best songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cletus Spuckle Posted May 26, 2008 Members Share Posted May 26, 2008 Speaking of books - I like "Rock Lead Basics". It's a Hal Leonard book full of basic riffs that you can steal. The authors' point of the entire book is that your heroes stole all their famous riffs, so you had might as well steal theirs. Just don't steal the book. It's cheap enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mrrikki Posted May 26, 2008 Members Share Posted May 26, 2008 Did some pentatonic and mode exercises today along with working on "whole lotta love" led zeplin and "Jailbreak" Thin Lizzy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jbviper4 Posted May 31, 2008 Members Share Posted May 31, 2008 Worked on Hotel California. some Bob Seger and other 70s era stuff for a few hours last night. Also did my usual 1 hour warmup on scales, timing, chord inversions.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members warriorpoet Posted June 1, 2008 Author Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 Wrote up three transpositions and wrote a jazz chord arrangement for a hymn. Restrung the PRS and jammed a bit on hymn arrangements then put it down. I'll probably do another hour or so tonight. Long days make for intense practice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kcinator Posted June 1, 2008 Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 I'll join this. I take lessons, but have not been practicing enough to improve at the rate I would like to. I will practice no less than one hour a day, and no less than two hours a day during the summer. Here is what I plan to practice1. Lesson Material often including learning music theory and berklee method books which include various chords/scales and all music is on a staff 2. Chords to jazz standards3. Recording the chords to jazz standards and soloing over them4. Chord Melodies for jazz standards5. Learning and memorizing tunes for a popular band that I'm in6. The complete fingerboard theory books or w/e they're called7. Reviewing scales/chords 8. Ear training/being able to tune the guitar without a tuner/learning tunes by ear If I spend a solid hour on these concepts everyday I am sure I can become a much better player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Santuzzo Posted June 1, 2008 Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 Guys, I have been slacking big time on my practicing in the past weeks. i'm in thep rocess of buying an appartment which takes a lot of time (appointments with notary, bank, financial advisor, etc.). When I have some time I do a practice session of maybe 2 hours, but then it might be another 3-5 days without practicing.I guess this will take a little longer until I am back to a more stable practice schedule, I tihnk this won't be until in august sometime, as I will go to NYC in the summer and I will stay something like 4-6 weeks..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DrunkRock Posted June 1, 2008 Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 I think I will join in on this! My routine is just over an hour each day. The goal is to improve my ear, my timing, my musical vocabulary and my reading. My routine is as follows: 5 minutes on spiders as a warm up, both alternating and hybrid picking10 minutes on either singing triads/intervals on the guitar, or picking out a familiar tune by ear15 minutes playing songs already learned with the metronome15 minutes learning a new song15 minutes transcribing, or reading, or playing to jam tracks This is a bit of a modification as I am no longer have access to David Oakes' book for reading music on the guitar. Thus I mostly read Real Books. Also, everyday I use the Musictheory.net interval and chord trainers, 50 questions each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Minitruth Posted June 1, 2008 Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 I haven't been slacking, I've been practicing with our friends for 2-3 hour jams every other night, on top of my usual practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TeleDude47 Posted June 1, 2008 Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 I think I'm going to join this. I'm going to strive for an hour a day. This will try to include:-20 minutes of speed training with a metronome (alternate picking/sweeping) to improve technical ability-20 minutes of working on applying new music theory-20 minutes of figuring out new songs to figure out how the theory and technique combine This will be on top of the jamming I do throughout the day. It's way to easy to just keep jamming. I will also try and double each of these during the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DrunkRock Posted June 1, 2008 Members Share Posted June 1, 2008 I got my hour is today. I scored 90% on chords, with Major, Minor, Suspended and Dom7 selected. I scored 82% on intervals, with Unison, M2, M3, and P4 selected. However the interval score is misleading, as the test gave me alot more Unisons than usual. Normally I score in the sixties. I did my five minutes of spiders, and chose to do 10 minutes on picking a familiar tune by ear. This time it was 'Daddy Sang Bass'. It's going slowly. I played the rhythm parts of Hey Jude and Paint it Black to a metronome. I practiced the lead part to Chattahoocie by Alan Jackson for my new song. I ended off with some reading of 'After You've Gone' in Eb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dingoman Posted June 6, 2008 Members Share Posted June 6, 2008 Summers Here!And the Berklee Audition draws closer and closer... Therefore,i vow to practice at LEAST 1 hour a day,if more is not possible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dingoman Posted June 6, 2008 Members Share Posted June 6, 2008 Also how do i put that thing in my signature? Im not very good with computers:idk: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Floritar Posted June 6, 2008 Members Share Posted June 6, 2008 I got emedia Guitar songs which includes 20 songs with tab and standard notation and has a recorder, to track progress. It is alot of fun, you can also use as back round tracks to play along with. It is a great way to learn and practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members warriorpoet Posted June 6, 2008 Author Members Share Posted June 6, 2008 Also how do i put that thing in my signature? Im not very good with computers:idk: highlight, copy, paste my practice logo in my sig. I've been hitting my .5 hour mark and more each day. I haven't had as much time to post lately, but am practicing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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