Thursday, February 10, 2011

Fretboard Review:
Found cool guitar fretboard trainer. Decrease in response rate has already begun, with just 3 or 4 days of consistent practice about 5 minutes a day. Right, I've turned all the notes up to fret 6 on.

Interval Review:

Plenty of mistakes in the cards I added yesterday.

Sight Reading:
Found a cool app for sight-reading rhythms.
http://www.practicesightreading.com/create.php
Practiced 2/4 time signature, level 3, at 80 bpm. Pretty challenging.


Warm-up/Technique:

Finger-stretching exercise - 1st position. Fingers can stretch only 1 fret (from 1st to 2nd, etc) in the first position. Keep stretchin.

String Walking exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 37) with i,m eight @ 110 bpm
String Walking exercise with m, l with eight notes @ 80 bpm
String-Jumping 1st string to 5th string, 2nd string to 6th string @ 80 bpm (same descending)
Progress everyday.

Right-Hand Velocity (pg. 63) with sixteenth notes @ 109 bpm rest & free.
This feels like my speed limit now
l, m @93 bpm rest & free
i, l @ 71 bpm

Synchronization Exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 65) with i,m sixteenth notes 89 bpm.

l, m @ 80 bpm. 5 bpm slower than yesterday, but I played on all the strings (I suspect yesterday it sounded good only on the higher strings) it was solid

Putting it all together
p. 67 Exercise - m, l went from 86 bpm yesterday to 73 bpm today (focused on rest stroke - proper angle for the middle and ring finger is tricky)
@ 90 i, m - free and rest

Scale Rhythmic Variation p. 68 @ 94 bpm

Played etude from yesterday

Speed Burst
pg. 69 Exercise 1.A @ 71 bpm
A. i - a
a - i
B. a - i


Percussive Exercise
Played Nothin on You rhythm @ 85 bpm

Repertoire:

Estrellita & Pica-Pica
Played these tunes in the morning and enjoyed them.

Na Gafieira Do Vidigal
I have thought about this before, but like many other projects abandoned it. Playing this piece this morning, however, I noticed that Part A sounds bright and should be played closer to the bridge, while the part that follows it needs a mellower sound and should be player over the soundhole. My coordination for shifting the wrist is lacking.

Went onwards in part D, but got stuck on chord in measure D6. Continue tomorrow.

Samba Caribe
Bart A measure 12-13 arpeggio - played @ 55. Gettin better.

Part B measures 14-15 - Played at 65 bpm

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