Thursday, October 21, 2010

Warm-up/Technique:
Finger-stretching exercise @ 100 bpm

String Walking exercise
(Pumping Nylon pg. 37) with i,m eight notes @ 95 bpm
String Walking exercise with m, l with eight @ 75 bpm

Synchronization Exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 65) with i,m sixteenth notes - much harder as I go down the page and the difficulty level increases -- @ 75 bpm. Definitely something I need to keep working on.

Same with l, m with sixteenths @ 65 bpm

Thumb Exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 41) @ 85 bpm

Arpeggio Exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 38) Various drills @ 85 bpm
ythm Exercise
Played blues block chord progression (All Blues for Jazz Guitar pg. 18) @75 silent

Repertoire:
Pica Pica
Played at 75 bpm with the metronome on silent. Quite challenging.

Estrellita
Recorded Private Run-Through. My cellphone alarm went off as I was -playing.... Exercise in sticking to the music during distractions. Interesting, that I made a mistake as soon as the alarm stopped ringing.

Not perfect, but less glitches than yesterday.

Thoughts:
I'm starting to think about the next piece. It will be Penderblast Blues by Tom Penderblast, which I found in Fingerstyle Magazine. It should be noted that my last attempt at a full-fledged blues piece (Rick Foster's version of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot) was way over my head. I learned it, but bombed it at a concert last March.

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