Friday, February 13, 2009

Recovering from spyware, backtracking...

Tuesday 2/10

40 + 20 Minutes

"Isreal", "Morning Has Broken"

Getting into some of the "detail work" talked about on Sunday. There's some good articulation exercise available in these 'chord-change' pieces, and also some metronome challenges (one a very slow 4/4, the other in 6/8, where metronome ticks are treated as dotted quarters instead of ordinary quarters). I'm also practicing playing chords with a light touch.

Some presentation work, practicing walking on and plugging in gracefully.

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Wednesday 2/11

15 Minutes

continued Tuesday's work

I've been focusing on technique work lately, on the assumption that improved technical ability will carry over into repertoire anyway; but working with repertoire gives its own insights into technique.

...and tonight...

Friday 2/13

60 Minutes

C major pentatonic scale, 1st inverstion C major arpeggios

Haven't done fretboard knowledge work in a while.