Thats awesome Birgit.  The more variety in your approach to learning - the richer and luxurious the resulting music!

Robert inspired me with his suggestions and I created my own backing track for the G harmonic minor practice.

I played the chord progression with my Epiphone and only played the chord voicings on the 3 higher strings with the exception of the Bb. I adjusted everything a bit with the chords and I hope it fits ! Sounds like playing the organ.

I created the drum track in my program Chord Pulse and then mixed everything together.

Playing along with the chord backing track helps a lot 👍. I will practice regularly now and maybe share another recording in a few months when I can play better and maybe increase my tempo.

Birgit

Hi sorry for the late reply. Hey great job! This is a good exercise. I can see your technique is getting better! Keep up the good work.

I only found out that the harmonic minor scale is also used in heavy metal when I started practicing it.

In the meantime, I've been studying this music style a bit and at the age of 66 I'm in the process of learning my first Metallica riff.

I still have a lot to learn and I'm starting at a very slow tempo. But it's incredible fun.

Especially the A5 power-chord, which is played in the 7th and 9th fret, I find incredibly expressive and gives so much energy.

Birgit

That is very cool - Metallica has some great riffs. 

The day before yesterday I happened to find Robert's beautiful Southern Rock Guitar solo in E major while browsing through his „2 Minute Lessons“. Robert mentioned that he wrote it based on „Soulshine“ by the Allman Brothers. As Dickey Betts has just died, I decided to rehearse the solo without further ado.

Here is a first attempt.

By the way : The 2-minute lessons are always a treasure trove of unexpectedly beautiful things to practise. Highly recommended. Thank you Robert 👍.

Birgit

Nice work, Birgit!

I re-recorded Robert's Jazz blues solo in C - J002 after learning it for the first time last year.

I got the idea after Vince recently suggested he was hooked on learning it and would like to improvise on the chord progression too.

It really is an incredibly beautiful jazz solo that Robert has conjured up for us, I'm still excited about the F# dim arpeggio. I can only recommend the solo to any jazz-enthusiastic beginner.

I recorded it again at 90 bpm instead of 100 bpm as in Robert's original. I still have to work on that.

I think I've improved a bit compared to the first recording, but there's still room for improvement in the current recording.

I really hope that Vince will also record this solo when he's ready and maybe improvise. Then I could still learn a lot from him.

Birgit

That's great! Keep playing that! You're doing really well. The timing could be tighter, and that will keep improving the more you do this. Here's a challenge - record it 5 times and watch it later with an analytical mind to determine which one is best and where you notice difficulties. Could be a valuable and fun practice session in itself!

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I re-recorded Robert's Jazz blues solo in C - J002 after learning it for the first time last year.

I got the idea after Vince recently suggested he was hooked on learning it and would like to improvise on the chord progression too.

It really is an incredibly beautiful jazz solo that Robert has conjured up for us, I'm still excited about the F# dim arpeggio. I can only recommend the solo to any jazz-enthusiastic beginner.

I recorded it again at 90 bpm instead of 100 bpm as in Robert's original. I still have to work on that.

I think I've improved a bit compared to the first recording, but there's still room for improvement in the current recording.

I really hope that Vince will also record this solo when he's ready and maybe improvise. Then I could still learn a lot from him.

 

 

Birgit

Hey Birgit! … Nice job playing J02 jazz solo, keep keeping it on!! Vince here, I got busy working and had to stop practicing that tune for awhile, so can’t attempt to post my version yet, … Oh Well… hopefully in awhile. 

@bluesiline Love everything what I see, the way you love to play guitar, the guitar himself and the great landscape background. Thank for sharing Birgit! 😉 🎸

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Hey Birgit! … Nice job playing J02 jazz solo, keep keeping it on!! Vince here, I got busy working and had to stop practicing that tune for awhile, so can’t attempt to post my version yet, … Oh Well… hopefully in awhile. 

Thank you, Vince, for your words of encouragement 😊.

And make your video on the « Jazz blues solo J002 » whenever you have time and, most importantly, have fun doing it. It’s such a beautiful solo.

Birgit

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@bluesiline Love everything what I see, the way you love to play guitar, the guitar himself and the great landscape background. Thank for sharing Birgit! 😉 🎸

Such kind words, André, thank you so much. I'm very happy about that 😊.

And yes, I really enjoy playing the guitar, even though there is still a lot to improve. And I love my Epiphone.

You mentioned the background: The background means a lot to me. The house at my head height, on the left, is a school where my eldest son spent the first 6 years of his schooling.

The house on the right is part of a farm where my eldest and middle son helped the farmer for years milking cows and working the fields with the tractor.

And the path I have placed myself on is also part of my mountainous jogging route.

Thank you again and all the best for you,

Birgit

@bluesiline Youre welcome Birgit.
For me there is a lot to improve too.
But I see you're growing, and that is so nice to see.
I think we must learn our whole live long, but I do that with a lot of fun.

The most time after my work, I learn the we playing with the band.
And when I have some time I like learn licks and song if that is possible for me from Kenny Wayne, Stevie Ray en Andy Timmons. It very difficult for me but I love every lick I learn from those guys.

Thank you for the story of that beauty background.
I can imagine that it means a lot to you with that history.
Thanks for sharing this.

Have a great weekend! 😀 👍🎸