[Brian]

Very nice. I miss paper I use to do everything in notebooks. Perhaps I should again. My practice thing is not done yet I been trying to get the beginner stuff and bar chords out of the way as most of it I don’t need as I’m a returning player but I pick up small tips and tricks and also gets me to thinking and helps create new ideas and such.

For now I just have the following in notepadd++ on my pc and I also have a picture of the circle of 5ths with info wrote on it that I keep open on my second monitor.

I am missing alot of topics below and can mainly see that everything I do is coordination building and building strength and calluses and stuff.

I definitely need to get the plan completed lol… to fair it has only been 10 days I came back.

I am able to play alot so about 8 hours or more a day during most these 10 days has been doing guitar and music stuff. Which enabled me to have very hard calluses already on day 10 but I had to play through pain the first 7 days so was not easy. So thats my cruddy practice routine so far.

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(I Warm Up)

1. Chromatic Scale up and down fretboard.

2. Major 7th Arpeggio Exercise up and down neck.

3. Ralph Machio classical piece from movie cross roads where they have guitar duel at end. Comprised of arpeggios that span entire neck. – note one of these years find out keys and type of arpeggios its built from. (play this 2-10 times a day its pretty advanced and I had to change and create some new portions as I only have 20 frets on Taylor acoustic not the 24 and one note at 30 that is in tab)

(II Learning Notes on Fretboard)

1. Six & 5th string focus

2. use five minute technique for each note between first and 12 fret up and down starting on six string. (currently on A,B,C)

(III Picking:)

(Finger Picking:)

(IV Bar Chords)

1. Power Chord Bar 6 & 5th string up and down neck to the octave. For Major, minor, 7th, and minor 7th

2. Lessons Song- Play-Along With “Loving The Change” very tough pace to make changes from open chord to bar chord.

(V Strumming)

(VI Right Hand Techniques)

(Ear Training:)

(Theory Training)

no daily stuff on this I just been looking up stuff as I need it or get confused on something.

(Misc:)

Learning House of Rising Sun to play and sing.

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[Brian]

You are going to love Guitar once you get past sore fingers! Also this site is great so your in the right place. 🙂

I played 20 some years ago and I wished Tomas had this site back then but internet was not really a think yet. lol

I am fairly new here to. Glad to have you with us!

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[Brian]

Hey Shane!

Finger picking is actually awesome some of the most beautiful Guitar is played that way. I am 54 hex maybe 55 who knows I quit counting at 50 we are still young men if not in body mentally 😉

Glad to have you on the site Thomas has done some really great things here I think you will love it!

P.S. I am jealous I love outdoors and I have never been to Alaska I am going to visit some day and maybe see if I can find a bear bigger than me lol.

[Brian]

During one post it failed and perhaps me refreshing and hitting submit again caused issue.

I love almost all music! I love the stuff you play that has jazzy feel and that Spanish sounding stuff. Here is a list of Music types:

Country

Classical

Jaz

Blues

older Rock of 90s back to Elvis!

I like most everything except thrash Metal and RAP.

I have an infinity towards haunting melodies and minor keys.

I have interest in becoming advanced with the 9th, 13ths Chords as well as 7ths.

I use to like some metal like metalica, QueensRhyche, Janes Addiction was awesome but I don’t like anti God stuff I am very strong believer in God, but I loved their music but was a bit bothered by titles like three days.

Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, some of my favorite bands though I learned about them much later in the 90s.

As kid I grew up in country we didnt really listen to music I was out in woods all time with the dogs so my mom had some Christian albums and Freddy Fender which I like but have not listened to since then as well as Elvis. So I was late bloomer

My favorite artist gun slingers where Joe Satrina and his Album surfacing with the alien. Steve Vai because of his unpredictability and his crazy songs and I loved Yngwie Malmsteen Classical leads and the classical part of stuff.

P.S. post a bit all over had to rush as at work and busy today!

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by  Brian.

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