Tuesday, 18 December 2012

So, most of today has been spent Christmas shopping and then youth music workshop in the evening, not left a great deal of time for practice! Never the less managed to get a bit done...

Warm up
2 mins. Again left hand exercises from pumping nylon.

Scales
20 mins. Major, Minor, Mel. Minor and Harm. Minor through cycle of 5ths.

Time feel
30 mins. Worked on trying to play 'in the pocket' used the chapter from jerry bergonzi's book on time. Playing broken triplets and then improvising straight 8th notes afterwards. Think it helps although I have to be consciously thinking about it. Need to devote much more time to this!!

Bends
15 mins. Noticed the other day a few were out. Often bending flat on high e.

Creative Practice
1hr. Focused on intervallic lines and mixing up intervals. Trying to break the habit of only sticking to one interval at a time when playing like this. Liked the stuff I got from mixing 3rds, 6ths and 7ths.

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