GOAL: Get comfortable moving around the fretboard automatically and in an informed way. Additionally, I need to understand music scales & modes.
LESSONS: Fretboard Finding Fun!
4/4/17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2.5-hours:
Playing the Shiflett
- 30-minutes on Atkins finger style excercise
- 30-minutes on fret work
- 30-minutes blues scale
4/5/17 ~~~~~
2.5-hours: Playing the Mixelodean I think i jumped ahead?!
Playing with the Musicman today. So easy to play.
- Need to figure out how to bookmark.
- Will finish up with Metronome bit that I missed before. (uh... not a lesson! heh)
- Added another 30-minutes with a chet atkins finger style excercise
4/6/17: 2-hours:
Playing the Shiflett
- 30-minutes on Atkins finger style excercise
- 30-minutes on fret work
- 30-minutes blues scale
- 30-minutes run-through, refresher of the above
4/7/17: 1.5-hours
Playing the Musicman
- 30-minutes: Heaven Beside You (pretty simple, almost like a bass-line)
- 30-minutes: Atkins finger style exercise (figured it out!)
- 30-minutes: Blues scale IV (starting to understand some of the 1-3-5-7 theory)
4/8/17 ~ 2-hours: Weekly Recap & Such
- 45-minutes: Refresher on everything covered this week
- 30-minutes: Atkins finger style exercise 2 (woah! to hear at first but figured it out quick)
- 30-minutes: Fredboard (A-C-E)
- 20-minutes: Heaven Beside You
4/9/17 - 2.5 hours
- 20-minutes: Heaven Beside You (rhythm complete)
- 30-minutes: Atkins finger style exercise 1 (moving it around)
- 20-minutes: Fret board (A-C-E-F)
- 20-minutes: Blues Scales 1
4/10/17 - 1-hour
- 30-minutes: Heaven Beside You
- 30-minutes: Fret board (A-C-E-F)
4/11/17 : 1-hour
- 20-minutes: Atkins finger style exercise 1&2
- 20-minutes: Fret board (F)
- 20-minutes: Heaven Without You
- 5-minutes: I Want My MTV
4/12/17 : 0.5-hours
- 30-minutes: Quick refresher
4/13/17 : 1.5-hours
- 30-minutes: Atkins finger style 1
- 20-minutes: Scales
- 20-minutes: Heaven Beside You
- 10-minutes: Fuzz play
4/14/17 : 1.75-hours
- 1-hour: Atkins finger style 2
- 45-minutes: Fret board (B, E, C, F, A)
4/20/17 : 30-minutes
Skipped yesterday. Only 30-minutes today.
- 30-minutes: Fret board (F, A, E)
4/21/17 : 1.5 hours
Adding funk to the mix: E Funk Groove
- 30-minutes: Fret board (F, A, E)
- 1-hour: E Funk Groove
4/22/17 : 1-hour
Funky only today.
- 1-hour: E Funk Groove
4/25/17 : 1.5-hours
Feeling good about the funk! Getting better with the fret board.
- 10-minutes: Fret board (G)
- 30-minutes: Heaven Without You
- 30-minutes: E Funk Groove
- 20-minutes: Scales