Friday, 18 January 2013

Warm up
5 mins. Pumping Nylon exercises.

Scales/Arpeggios
25 mins. Maj, min, mel and harm through cycle of 5ths all over neck. Dom 7, maj 7, min 7 and min7b5 arpeggios. Major scale and melodic minor scale modes.

Rhythm/Time
1hr 10. Usual subdivision and broken meter stuff at 40 bpm and 60 bpm. Moved on through the '22 rhythms' section of the jerry bergonzi book as well. When I do this prior to improvising I feel I gain a lot more control rhythmically, think this comes from the broken meter stuff in particular.

Chops practice and Improvisation
1hr 30. Did the usual arpeggios with substitutions, could have concentrated a great deal better! Improvised a lot however after a while I grew unhappy with how I was playing, took a brake and came back to it and played much better.

Harmony
1hr. Continued study of triads over bass notes, enjoying this and it is opening up some new sounds to me. Making good progress on this front however to be able to use all this material freely will take a very long time I fear!

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