Another week, another lesson night. Since I wasn’t too sure whether I would have time to do some practice after coming home from the lesson, I got home from work a little early and set myself up to do today’s workout before heading out. If it’s Thursday it’s Arpeggios day. Since it’s still week one, the chords used for arpeggios aren’t too hard (yet) and still I was having issues with correct finger positioning for my D and C chords, which really should just not happen. As it turned out, my fingernails were just a little too long and were snagging strings and just not helping getting the chords right. Sure enough once I trimmed them, I tried the 2 fastest tempi again and it was much easier.
Tonight’s lesson was focused on the blues pentatonic scale again with some additional licks I shall make sure to add to my vocabulary. Interestingly, one of the things I’ve retained from tonight is how to keep the hand within a “box” shape to keep that blues sound going. I shall try to remember that advice for future jamming sessions and see what difference it makes. As it stands, I often opt for a more horizontal exploration with my fingers not always knowing which fret they should focus on.
Finally finished Parisienne Walkways too, and that fast bit is starting to get quite easy, so now it’s just practising those random little licks at then end and we should be good. I wonder what else is in the works 🙂