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 @ 60 bpm

Right-Hand Velocity (pg. 63) with sixteenth notes @ 105 bpm
l, m @ 85 bpm

Synchronization Exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 65) with i,m sixteenth notes - @ 85 bpm. (

Thumb Exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 41) @ 70 bpm.

Arpeggio Exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 38) Various drills @ 75 bpm (thumb free stroke is harder than thumb rest stroke)

Rythm Exercise Played blues block chord progression (All Blues for Jazz Guitar pg. 18) @100 silent

Repertoire:
Pica-Pica and Estrellita
Played back-to-back . Every day I'm realizing more and more that this is a test in concentration. As soon as my mind wanders off of the piece, musicianship wanes and I stumble.

Samba exercises
Played Track 2 from Nelson Faria's Brazilian Guitar Book. It is very fast, so I slowed it down to 72% of its speed in Transcribe. Very good rhythm practice. I find that one difficult thing about samba is the confusing point in which the guitar comes in. I was able to isolate this with Transcribe and practice it well.

Thoughts:
I realized that I really want to play samba already - Penderblast Blues is okay, but I really felt like learning more because I thought I had to. I think the solution to new repertoire is just to learn simple samba pieces I like. Don't know, to be honest, whether they exist. Otherwise I'll just be playing chord progressions, which aren't bad, but I can't showcase them to anyone...