Study -- 8/30/2005

5:30 PM

• Jammed to Parranda
• Worked out progression for original tune:
• Bm7–C#m7b5–F#7–Bm7 (4 bars)
• does not work with original melody
• So now I have a spin-off i.e. to song ideas

6:30 PM

9:30

• Inserted progression above into BB
• worked on melody ideas for it
• also partly entered modified original idea2 to Finale, need to finish tomorrow, Finale Notepad does not scale , purchased Finale Guitar

10:30

 

Duration : 2 hrs

Study -- 8/29/2005

5:00 PM

• compositon of Idea2
• strumming work over Bm7–C#m7b5–F7#9

6:15 PM

Duration: 1 h 15 min

Study -- 8/25/2005

5:00 PM

• Recording doodling
• Note: mic on guitar grill is too upfront, no ambience

6:00 PM

10:00 PM

• Work on idea2 and idea2

10:30 PM

 

Duration: 1 h 30 min

Study -- 8/24/2005

5:30 PM

• Memorize F7 voicing over the fretboard.

6:30

10:30

• Work on Idea2

11:15 PM

Duration: 1 h 45 min

Study -- 8/23/2005

4:30 PM

• Play E altered dominant (7th mode F Jazz melodic minor) over an E7#9 with arpegios

5:30 PM

9:45 PM

• Work on Idea2

11:00 PM

Note:

Can’t elaborate beyond initial 3 bar riff

• I-V7#9 – IV

Duration: 2 h 15

Study -- 8/22/2005

10:45 PM

• F Jazz melodic minor

11:30 PM

Duration: 45 min

Note:

Not a high quality practise, too tired, started to late. Make it a point to apply the F Jazz melodic minor to a E7#9

Review - Week ending: 8/21/2005

Total time: 15 h 10 min

Avg/Day: 2 hours +

Notes:

Postives:

• Spend time on ear training
• Jotted into Finale a couple of ideas
• Got a better grip on making the delta notes on O Grande Amor
• Picking was more fluid
• Began re-incorporating right hand picking and strumming
• Began adding some left hand
• Added Jamming to tracks, fun but useful to pull out the ideas live

Negatives;

• Probably still doodle my warmups too much
• Zero recording
• Need more chord work
• Need more structured target study areas e.g. finish ADM’s lesson system.

Friday, August 19th, 2005

10:05 PM

• O Grande Amor study Jon’s solo
• Play with Band in the Box

1:30 AM

Duration 3 h 00 ,

 took a break somewhere in there

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

6:00 PM

• O Grande Amor – improv to
• Record and work with an idea

8:00 PM

Duration: 2 h 00 min

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

6:15 PM

• Scales:
• Study harmonic minor
• Study Whole/half dim
• Jam to Asia de Cuba
• Apply above scales, arps and interval jumps

7:35 PM

Duration: 1 h 20 min

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Start: 10:00 PM

• Free Jams to Asio de Cuba and others

End: 11:30 PM

Duration: 1 h 30 min

 

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Start: 6:00 PM

• Harmonic Minor (maj7) arpegios – ADM
• Asia de Cuba

End: 7: 20 PM

Duration: 1 h 20 min