it seems weird that I feel that I'm just beginning my journey of self-learning guitar. But that's how I feel after I've stopped my 'lesson' with Jose. Though, I have been mostly self-taught but I am most fortunate to always have friends and people around me to open doors and direct me to the next level. Also, I ask the people around me a lot of questions. Those who know who you are:- my sincere thanks :) my music now is in part what you guys/gals has passed on to me.
Perhaps the only thing that I have never done in my musical life is to SERIOUSLY set a goal for myself, dedicate time to it in getting there. It was always, 'playing' as compared to 'learning and practicing'. Boy, it's not easy practicing -- playing just gets in the way.
I suppose I have done some 'practising' in my guitar life but there's some power at work when decision give birth to discipline. The synergy of it all is quite amazing. I hope I can keep up the desire.
At this moment, I think I can pick pretty well at 100bpm with the new technique at quater notes. I'm still practicing the major scales at cycles of 4th. They are great in learning modes. I'm beginnign to discover after sometime I do have a clearer picture of all the major scales (and hence modes in the fret board) .
In addition to the picking, I'm doing legato practices on my left hand. I got this john petrucci rock discipline pt2 video. JP gives does an excellent job at showing how legato is done and how it can be used. He also show us how shamefully slow we are when he does his legato demos at blinding speed.
That's all for techniques practices. I'll be trying to transribe one song and learn the ins and outs of it. Its called mind games by bob james. Check out the track in his 'casino lights' version.
Lastly, a quote from Bruce Lee ,"it's not daily increase but daily decrease - hack away the unessentials"
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