Time: 50 min.

Practiced: Lesson Material from Scott McGill (04/17/1991 and 05/07/1991)

• Minor arpeggio from Scott McGill’s “The Guitar Arpeggio Compendium”
• Sus 4 arpeggio from Scott McGill’s “The Guitar Arpeggio Compendium”
• Scale position study: C, B, Bb, and A major scales all from 5th position
• CMaj13th arpeggio, every string, every finger
• First 8 bars of “All the Things You Are”
  • 1234, 1235 string groups
  • melody in every voice (finger)
• Improvisation over ii-V-I in C Major

Comments: Kind of a slow day today. Tired and a bit unmotivated, but I’m glad I got some practicing in. Having a little trouble with the fingering on the sus4 arpeggio. I found a way that’s more comfortable for me than the two recommended fingering I have from Scott; will have to ask him about it.

Thinking a lot about coming up with a newly-defined goals list, especially in light of the article I just wrote. I want to concentrate on jazz lines again and really nailing down the ii-V-I progressions. It’s been a while since I’ve hammered away at those.

Physically my hands and everything feel strong and in good position.

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Time: 35 min.

Practiced: Lesson Material from Scott McGill (04/17/1991)

• Minor arpeggio from Scott McGill’s “The Guitar Arpeggio Compendium”
• Scale position study: C, B, Bb, and A major scales all from 5th position
• CMaj13th arpeggio, every string, every finger
• First 8 bars of “All the Things You Are”
  • 1234, 2345 string groups
  • melody in every voice (finger)

Comments: Session was short, but felt good. It is interesting going back to lesson material from so long ago. I remember these lessons with Scott vividly; sitting in his room practicing, learning and being exposed to all kinds of new material and players… truly a great time.

Specifically, the fingering of the minor arpeggio feels a little awkward moving from finger 4 of B string to finger 1 of E string, but it’s workable. ATTYA was a little more tricky since I haven’t worked on inner voice melodies in a while. Will take some practice to get back into that routine, which I intend on sticking with.

Pratice Journal: Josh (01/07/2010) is a post from: Fretterverse.com: Guitar Blog | guitar news & reviews, amps, effects, guitars, music theory, guitar lessons. If you are reading this on a site that is not Fretterverse.com, it's been ripped. Please come to the real Fretterverse.com.