scales

Week 19. Summary

I have a plane in 10 hours, so this summary will be short 🙂

The goals I set myself this week were quite over reasonable, so in order to reach them I had to increase the speed by 10 bpm daily while playing as 8th notes. So it was pretty tough and the result at final speed is not very clean. But I managed to film some pretty decent attempts on camera, so the goals are now complete.

I won’t have any guitar on a vacation so I’ll continue ear training and start practicing 6 levels of rhythm from the Module 22. I really hope that the Internet will be there and I’ll be able to post something for the next week. Don’t wanna fail the challenge because of this vacation.

Anyway, here’s the short video with this week results.

The goals for this week were:

[Done] Mixolydian scales as 16th notes at 90 bpm
[Done] Major scales (A string) as 16th notes at 90 bpm
[Done] Major scales in 3rds as 16th notes at 75 bpm
[Done] Major scales in 4 note pattern as 16th notes at 75 bpm
[Done] Major pentatonic scales as 16th notes at 90 bpm
[Done] Major pentatonic scales in 3rds as 16th notes at 75 bpm
[Done] Major pentatonic scales in 4 note pattern as 16th notes at 75 bpm
[Done] Minor pentatonic scales as 16th notes at 90 bpm
[Done] Minor pentatonic scales in 3rds as 16th notes at 75 bpm
[Done] Minor pentatonic scales in 4 note pattern as 16th notes at 75 bpm

My goals for the next week:

6 levels of rhythm at 120 bpm
Daily ear training starting from all intervals

Practice time

Day 127 – 45 min
Day 128 – 45 min
Day 129 – 45 min
Day 130 – 45 min
Day 131 – 45 min
Day 132 – 45 min
Day 133 – 45 min
Total – 5 h 15 min

Scales – A mixolydian – 16th notes @ 80 bpm → 16th notes @ 90 bpm
Scales – D major (A string) – 16th notes @ 80 bpm → 16th notes @ 90 bpm

Scales – A major in 3rds – 8th notes @ 80 bpm → 8th notes @ 150 bpm
Scales – A major in 4 note pattern – 8th notes @ 80 bpm → 8th notes @ 150 bpm

Scales – A major pentatonic – 16th notes @ 80 bpm → 16th notes @ 90 bpm
Scales – A major pentatonic in 3rds and 4ths – 8th notes @ 80 bpm → 8th notes @ 150 bpm
Scales – A major pentatonic in 4 note pattern – 8th notes @ 80 bpm → 8th notes @ 150 bpm

Scales – A minor pentatonic – 16th notes @ 80 bpm → 16th notes @ 90 bpm
Scales – A minor pentatonic in 3rds and 4ths – 8th notes @ 80 bpm → 8th notes @ 150 bpm
Scales – A minor pentatonic in 4 note pattern – 8th notes @ 80 bpm → 8th notes @ 150 bpm

Ear training

Intervals – 7-14 intervals – 270 of 300 – 90.00%
Minor 2nd, Major 2nd, Minor 3rd, Major 3rd, Perfect 4th, Tritone, Perfect 5th, Minor 6th, Major 6th, Minor 7th, Major 7th, Octave, Minor 9th, Major 9th

Day 133. Not perfect, but still…

Today I had to finalize the week with no experience of playing these exercises at the given speed. Well, it kinda worked out, but they’re pretty rough.

Scales

A mixolydian

16th notes @ 90 bpm

D major (A string)

16th notes @ 90 bpm

A major in 3rds

8th notes @ 150 bpm

A major in 4 note pattern

8th notes @ 150 bpm

A major pentatonic

16th notes @ 90 bpm

A major pentatonic in 3rds and 4ths

8th notes @ 150 bpm

A major pentatonic in 4 note pattern

8th notes @ 150 bpm

A minor pentatonic

16th notes @ 90 bpm

A minor pentatonic in 3rds and 4ths

8th notes @ 150 bpm

A minor pentatonic in 4 note pattern

8th notes @ 150 bpm

Ear training

7-13 intervals

Routines

Scales – A mixolydian – 90 bpm – 16th notes – 3 min
Scales – D major (A string) – 90 bpm – 16th notes – 3 min

Scales – A major in 3rds – 150 bpm – 8th notes – 3 min
Scales – A major in 4 note pattern – 150 bpm – 8th notes – 3 min

Scales – A major pentatonic – 90 bpm – 16th notes – 3 min
Scales – A major pentatonic in 3rds and 4ths – 150 bpm – 8th notes – 3 min
Scales – A major pentatonic in 4 note pattern – 150 bpm – 8th notes – 3 min

Scales – A minor pentatonic – 90 bpm – 16th notes – 3 min
Scales – A minor pentatonic in 3rds and 4ths – 150 bpm – 8th notes – 3 min
Scales – A minor pentatonic in 4 note pattern – 150 bpm – 8th notes – 3 min

Ear training – Intervals – 7-13 intervals – 15 min

Total – 45 min

Day 132. Almost there

I’m trying to get to the final speed of 150 bpm by tomorrow, so today the exercises are at 140 bpm. Some of them were pretty easy, the others – not so well played.