Friday, 4 January 2013

Warm-up
Same as usual

Scales/Arpeggios
Same as usual.

Chops Practice
Arpeggios round blue bossa. Added substitutions (arpeggios from third and dim. scale). Need to be braver and focus more on the substitutions now. Also when I feel comfortable in something I need to be braver in moving on. This applies to all areas of practice.

Time/Rhythm
Sub division exercises, practiced improvising freely and moving through them as well as a more dry approach.

Creative Practice/Composition
Worked on finger picking idea from before. Trying to work in a rhythmic modulation going from straight quavers to crotchet triplets and then taking the triplet and turning it into four straight crotchets. Want to "dive" straight into it but finding I need to set it up first. Hopefully it will come in time. Got another idea that incorporates a rest stroke in the thumb and free stoke in the fingers. Like it but can't quite get it up to the speed that I want yet.

As a general note I've been quite down on my playing today. Need to stop worrying!

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