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Bluegrass
King Wilkies Run and Wheeling by David Grier, Old Ebenezer Scrooge by Sierra Hull, these are 80% there
Classical
Bach Violin Partita in Am BWV1003 - this is 90% but I’m having some lessons from an early music specialist next Monday so I’ll report back
Jazz
jazz blues chords adding inversions to get more harmonic movement, aiming for Freddie green big band style
soloing in the style of Charlie Christian
take 5 - single line version in Ebm (I find this v tricky, especially the B section!)
you can see why I’m a jack of all trades!
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
yes I’m sure you’re right…sonata not partita. It’s deffo 1003 in Am. Actually very playable on the guitar, even with added bass notes a la Barrueco. Great plectrum piece as-is. If you’re intimidated by Bach, go for the violin or cello stuff - the Lute Suites put a lot of people off I think because they are so bloody difficult. There’s no accounts of anyone actually attempting them until the late 19thC I believe?
don’t know why I try to learn all this stuff…just obsessive I guess
Take 5…I can play a solo arrangement in Am but I’m working on duo arrangement in Ebm to play with my mate Rory Evans
I think I might finally have found my "way" into jazz...there's many vids and books out there on the theory...but to actually see it being applied in the context of songs is making a lot more sense to me here.
a good one for me too is finding the faster speed , then say the idea is to play it in 16th notes at The fast speed play it in quarter notes at the fast speed and then at the end do one rep in 16th notes . It’s usually possible to play faster than you can if it’s just for a few notes doing this slow then fast thing helps you to get used to the feeling of playing fast and playing it perfect . You can then add more reps of playing it at 16th notes the better you get . I’m not very good at explaining it but someone here might see what I’m getting at and be able to explain better
It's taken me 2 weeks so far and I can't remember all of it, but can play most of it albeit not up to tempo (couple of bits I still can't play).
Really enjoying it, but I think it's likely to take months to really nail it. Some of it is really satisfying to play.
https://www.instagram.com/insta.guitarstuff/
On the 4 note arpeggios from the intro, it’s on the way to the 4th note which is an upstroke on the d string after the downstroke on the b string.
I can play it faster than the record and clean. Just can’t yet pull it all together. I think I’m not consistently getting enough distance from the b string after I pick it.
It’a a stubborn fix. Think I just need more time at it.
Or to sell my soul.
It usually takes about 10 takes to record something, but this one was just hit record and bam! and it shows. I can play it fairly fluidly normally, but the stress of the recording makes it all fall apart!
https://www.instagram.com/insta.guitarstuff/
Had to cancel my lesson this week as my son has Covid, so I might use the extra time to revisit Animal Nitrate by Suede, as a way of getting to know the Telecaster ‘72 Deluxe that’s arriving on Thursday.
Here's the actual 5th Caprice, you'll hear the famous intro to the arpegio section in Eugene's trick bag @ 33 secs in, but as you can hear, whats comes before and after is quite different.
Nice picking exercise though (the Vai one and also the classical version an octave lower that appears early in the movie when Macchio is practicing in his bedroom).