Sight Reading:
Continued with 2/4 time signature, level 3, at but had to decrease tempo to 75 bpm. Really powerful stuff here, as I can feel being challenged by the program to look ahead a couple of beats. Noticed that I can do it well at this tempo only if I count out loud.

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. I noticed when I picking out Bruno Mars' Just the Way You Are I was referring to the intervals automatically in my head. This in turn helped me better understand the music. This was precisely the idea of studying these intervals. It's paying off. Booyakusha!


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 @ 75 bpm (5 bpm slower than yesterday) - I filed my nails, and the nail on the ring figure, though protrudes ~4mm wasn't hooking the string
String-Jumping 1st string to 5th string, 2nd string to 6th string @ 83 bpm (same descending)
Progress everyday.

Right-Hand Velocity (pg. 63) with sixteenth notes @ 109 bpm rest & free.
l, m @93 bpm rest & free
i, l @ 73 bpm

Synchronization Exercise (Pumping Nylon pg. 65) with i,m sixteenth notes 92 bpm.

l, m @ 80 bpm

Putting it all together p. 67 Exercise - m, l went from 86 bpm yesterday to 75 bpm today
@ 90 i, m - free and rest

Scale Rhythmic Variation p. 68 @ 94 bpm

Played etude

Speed Burst pg. 69 Exercise 1.A @ 71 bpm
Rest and free
A. all
B. a - i

Percussive Exercise
Played Nothin on You rhythm @ 85 bpm. It's hard to get it clean!

Repertoire:

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

Na Gafieira Do Vidigal
Practiced shift from brighter to mellow tone while going from Parts A to B.
I realized overall that many parts are not clean yet, and I should not go on to Transcribing further until I get this down well - so played from the beginning slowly (@ 77 bpm)



Samba Caribe
Bart A measure 12-13 arpeggio - played @ 55. Still hard. Tried increasing to 60, but couldn't pay without mistakes.

Part B measures 14-15 - Played at 68 bpm