Not terribly inspired to write much about anything going on just now. This week has been taken by so many other worries that I’ve been struggling to catch up with my daily routine. Thankfully most exercises were either easy or not terribly inspiring which meant I didn’t really need to spend an awful lot of time on them.
Still, I’m still liking the hybrid picking exercises and this week we introduced what I can only call a “metal run” on the legato exercise. While you think it might be easy to play sequences of the same triplet over and over again, once you start gaining speed what you have to really work on is the hand to hand coordination and that can really go out of the window even if the picking is just fine. The exercise was supposed to stop at 120bpm but as with previous exercises, that’s where I started, only I could only take it as far as 144bpm before I lost the plot.
Over the last couple of weeks, there’s been interesting boogie patterns to work on in the rhythm section. I certainly wouldn’t have known to change the rhythm to a “triplet feel” if it wasn’t for guitar pro. Certainly some interesting stretches and patterns to find there.
Finally I’ve been playing a bit of Gary Moore again recently, I wonder why…