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Here is a video of my practicing the second goal of my January challenge, the intro riff to Purple Haze.
@turkgoose
I have the same issue with my little finger. I bought some hand exercise tools from D’Addario a couple of months ago. One is a finger squeeze thing for grip strength (good for improving Barr chords), the other is little triangle fidget thing that is supposed to improve dexterity, and I’m happy to report it seems to actually work.My practice so far:
I should explain I am using this challenge to experiment with a new practice format, short intervals (3 minutes right now) covering 4 to 5 different segments of music. I’m only posting “Summertime”, and “Purple Haze”. My goal with “Summertime” is to memorize the entire song, play and sing in time, “Purple Haze” I just want to play the intro smoothly (chords for Purple Haze are relatively easy, so if I get the intro down I should be able to play the whole song).
https://youtu.be/8K-Eon72hO8
https://youtu.be/jEOXdXdhF9cI tried to post my progress videos, but they are not showing up? The forum says they were posted successfully.
1) Execution – I have a couple of goals in mind ( I trying out a new practice routine I learned about recently that I will be employing) First, I want to get comfortable with the metronome, I’ll be working with an arrangement of “Summertime” with the metronome. Second, I’ll be working on the intro riff to “Purple Haze”.
2) Application – For the metronome part, I hope to play through the song, with vocals, in time. For “Purple Haze”, I just want to get fluent with that riff and perhaps perform the whole song with vocals.
3) Evaluation – I did record myself trying to play “Summertime” with the metronome, I won’t be posting that publicly though 😛
@andrew
Ah yes, my old nemesis, the metronome. Is there anything special I can do in my metronome app setup to play to a swing rhythm?Premium Member.
This is one of my favorite Holiday tunes, and Matt’s arrangement is so cool I had to work with this one. Here is my submission, I still don’t have the last two measures down and I need to work on the dynamics. I hope by the time my family meets for the Holiday, I’ll own this song.
@Andrew – Thanks Andrew, it’s still a work in progress. I started videoing my practice even when using the tab scroller. That was the best take so far, but I’ve added that piece to my “meditative etudes” to keep it in my practice sessions.
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I wanted to get this entered before my holiday starts, I’m still struggling with timing and some of the transitions.
Thanks, I’m still working on Miserlou timing too. Backing tracks are much mor fun than a metronome.
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Here’s my play on the Minor Blues Jam. Had some trouble with timing, especially on the finger picking turnaround but I wanted to post something before September get away from me altogether.
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Seriously challenging song for a simple arrangement. Between the tremolo strum and the timing, I really struggled to get this done. Not a great take, but the best I can do right now. I guess the secret to tremolo strumming is practice, practice, and practice.
@Andrew did you critique page 7? I don’t think I saw any advice for my attempt at the rest strokes in Swan Lake.