Question: What are you practicing?

Mark Wein said:
The stuff in the book isn’t very difficult, but I need to memorize a handful of tunes to get any benefit from it.

I’ve also starting playing a little bit of slide every day.
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Manzanita! No problem!
Just kidding, tho I know it’s well within your ability.
Myself I like the simple stuff best.
Church Street Blues is a great tune.
 
Pine Apple Slim said:
Manzanita! No problem!
Just kidding, tho I know it’s well within your ability.
Myself I like the simple stuff best.
Church Street Blues is a great tune.
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It’s funny you mention that. Watching my college friend Zach play “Manzantia” a few days ago was part of my the inspiration. Maybe I’ll learn that one, too.

 
My old drummer and I have been getting the itch...haven’t jammed together in about a year.

So we’ve decided to spend the next couple weeks practicing two albums and we’ll get together in June in my garage to run em through, cover to cover.

He picked Painkiller - Judas Priest. I picked Abigail - King Diamond.

I got some work to do!

Plenty of equipment and room to social distance in there if you want some of this fire @Chad !
 
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VoidTerraFirma said:
My old drummer and I have been getting the itch...haven’t jammed together in about a year.

So we’ve decided to spend the next couple weeks practicing two albums and we’ll get together in June in my garage to run em through, cover to cover.

He picked Painkiller - Judas Priest. I picked Abigail - King Diamond.

I got some work to do!

Plenty of equipment and room to social distance in there if you want some of this fire @Chad !
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Whoah. You didn't pick an easy challenge.
 
Motorik said:
Whoah. You didn't pick an easy challenge.
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It’s not quite as daunting as it seems.

1) I’ll be learning very few of the solos. Really just some of the melodic lines to tie everything together.
2) I jammed along to both these albums quite a bit back in my twenties. Definitely going to be some “muscle memory” kicking in on a bunch of tracks.
 
VoidTerraFirma said:
It’s not quite as daunting as it seems.

1) I’ll be learning very few of the solos. Really just some of the melodic lines to tie everything together.
2) I jammed along to both these albums quite a bit back in my twenties. Definitely going to be some “muscle memory” kicking in on a bunch of tracks.
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Ah, that sounds a lot more manageable.:thu: I was overwhelmed just thinking about learning all the solos on both those albums, and it's not even me doing it!
 
Just pulled out my sitar after not touching it the last 3-4 years. OMG, I'm staring at it like "what do I do?" Pulled out my old Raga Yaman notation and trying to refresh my memory and muscle memory. Tuning the sympathetic strings to a scale is a pain, and then tuning the rhythmic chikari strings, in addition to the main melody strings. The getting used to the wire mizrab over my picking finger and developing new calluses for that.
 
I was doing some recording and found some sloppiness has crept into my thumb bass-note playing. Along with cleaning that up, I'm working on a new bass pattern that doesn't sound as derivative of early Chet.
 
wok said:
Just learning something a bit different. I am not really into shredding, but it's good every once in a while to go outside my comfort zone

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The one and only band I was in covered that song back in high school. I played that "rhythm" part and hated the finger stretch on that first chord but got it down solid. We had a ton of fun with that song.
In the video you posted, the lick at about 2:29 is my absolute favorite part of the whole song.
I actually enjoyed playing bass on it too. You can't really hear it in that video but it gets really fun to play after the tapping part.
 
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