Today I’ve been sleeping a lot, so I did the practice after midnight and just repeated yesterday’s routines, having slightly increased the speed of Kids solo.
1234 exercise
4123 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4132 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4213 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4231 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4312 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4321 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
Scales
Major scales
16th notes @ 80 bpm
Minor scales
16th notes @ 80 bpm
Ear training
And 8 intervals once again. Not good, but today was really weird day, I’ve completely overslept it.
Wow. Just, wow. The time has gone so fast – it’s already the 100th day of my daily uploads! I’m not feeling well today, so I played only 1234s again and did some ear training.
1234 exercise
4123 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4132 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4213 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4231 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4312 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4321 on the 1-12 frets
8th notes @ 150 bpm
Ear training
I’m getting more consistent in getting to the level with 7 intervals. But proceeding further is still tricky.
This week I started to learn and apply CAGED system. It’s really cool how many voicings of the same chords exist. I’ve been playing C A G E D chords in every position with every shape and doing it for Major, Minor, Major 7th, 7th, Minor 7th chords. In the PDFs and the lesson itself there were no 7th chords shapes for CAGED system. Is there any reason for that? Anyway I figured them out myself and have been playing them as part of this routine as well.
Above that the common routines continued. 1234s are preserved as always and I’m getting closer to my ultimate goal: next week I’ll play the 4*** combinations as 8th notes at 150 bpm across the fretboard and it will conclude my long journey of playing each of 24 combinations that way. I have some ideas how to improve this exercise even more after that, but I’ll tell about it the next week.
I’ve been practicing scales as well, but I’m not better at playing them at all, so next week I’ll decrease the speed and try to increase it bpm by bpm. This leap of 10 bpm at once (or 5 bpm if we’re talking about 16th notes) seems to be crucial and too hard, so I need a step back. No scales videos in the summary this time 🙂
Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year!
The goals for this week were:
[Done] 4231, 4312, 4321 as 8th notes at 150 bpm on the 5th fret
Practice ear training at tonedear.com daily
Kids by MGMT solo at 170 bpm consistently
[Done] Implement Modules 19-20 routines
My goals for the next week:
4123, 4132, 4213, 4231, 4312, 4321 as 8th notes at 150 bpm across the neck
Practice ear training at tonedear.com daily
Kids by MGMT solo at 160 bpm consistently
CAGED shapes for each kind of chords in less than 1:20
1234 exercise
4231 on the 5th fret – 8th notes @ 120 bpm → 8th notes @ 150 bpm 4312 on the 5th fret – 8th notes @ 120 bpm → 8th notes @ 150 bpm 4321 on the 5th fret – 8th notes @ 120 bpm → 8th notes @ 150 bpm
Scales
Major scales – 1-12 frets – EADG strings – 16th notes @ 90 bpm Minor scales – 1-12 frets – EA strings – 16th notes @ 90 bpm
CAGED system
CAGED– Major chords – 1:34 CAGED– Minor chords – 1:39 CAGED – Major 7th chords – 2:05 CAGED – 7th chords – 1:41 CAGED – Minor 7th chords – 1:35
Ear training
Intervals – 175 of 200 – 87.50% → 268 of 300 – 89.33% Minor 2nd, Major 2nd, Minor 3rd, Major 3rd, Perfect 4th, Tritone, Perfect 5th, Minor 6th, Octave
Today I’ve started holding my pinky on the guitar body in order to get better in picking. The precision have become better, but the pinky stays in the way from time to time so I need more time to get used to it.
1234 exercise
4231 on the 5th fret
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4312 on the 5th fret
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4321 on the 5th fret
8th notes @ 150 bpm
Scales
Major scales
16th notes @ 90 bpm
Minor scales
16th notes @ 90 bpm
CAGED system
Major chords
Minor chords
Major 7th chords
7th chords
Minor 7th chords
Ear training
Got to the level with 8 intervals again. My consistency is getting better.
Songs
MGMT – Kids [Solo]
8th notes @ 145 bpm. I played it pretty well yesterday but after applying new picking technique with holding my pinky on the guitar body the same things became harder. After several minutes I’ve kind of got used to this but still not completely.
8th notes @ 150 bpm. I decided to increase the speed to diverse the practice, because I got sick of playing the same solo at the same speed for ages.
Today I’ve managed to work on solo more and repeat everything else.
1234 exercise
4231 on the 5th fret
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4312 on the 5th fret
8th notes @ 150 bpm
4321 on the 5th fret
8th notes @ 150 bpm
Scales
Major scales
16th notes @ 90 bpm
Minor scales
16th notes @ 90 bpm
CAGED system
Major chords
Minor chords
Major 7th chords
7th chords
Minor 7th chords
Ear training
It’s the first time ever I’ve got to the level with 9 intervals. My ear is getting better, and that’s a fact. Unfortunately, I failed my weekly goal to practice every day, but the results are getting better and better, which is marvelous. My best result ever!
Songs
MGMT – Kids [Solo]
8th notes @ 140-145 bpm. I’ve decided to work more on consistency so the idea was to play the whole solo again and again at the given speed until it sounds good for a few times in a row. The speed I got to is not that impressive – 145 bpm. But I think that this approach is what will lead me to the finite goal of playing the solo at the original speed.
Summary
I’m not sure what to write here, so this section will be optional since tomorrow.
