ok,
here goes!
I take the dog for a walk just to get my creative juices ready to flow. However its BEN the collie who seems more ready to flow than myself...especially at every lamppost!
As soon as we are both walked its into my studio to start the days tasks. On the menu today I have my first pupil at 11am. Her name is Maggie and is a seasoned singer she currently has vocal lessons and is working on some vibrato techniques. I have prepared her lesson and all my others for the day which are: Emily vocals, Rochelle Vocals, Paul, guitar and Alan guitar. Em is relatively new to singing and I am still raising her vocal fitness levels...Roch already gigs in a band but needs some more confidence...so we will spend time in front of the mic. Paul is into some killer rhythm riffs and Alan is just about to take his first Theory and performance exams ...at the age of 49! so you are never to old to learn!
All done so now its onto my own 2 hour practice session for today . The thing I have neglected the last few days is my legato playing. For those of you not sure what legato is it is mainly left hand fingering consisting of hammers and pulloff's with no or little use of the pick. The term legato means smoothly.
My exercises will consist of 2 string patterns with 3 notes on each string. I will finger frets 5,6 and 8 using fingers 1,2 4 then swap to frets 5,7,8 using fingers 1,3 and4.
The pattern goes like this on the B string 5,6,8,6,5,6,8 then move to the E string and repeat. I will then use the same exercise after half an hour but fret fingers 1,3 and 4 so it goes B string 5,7,8,7,5,7,8 and then again move this to the E string . Do this exercise for 30 minutes again. Repeat the whole 2 exercises again till you have done 2 hours.
I set my metronome at 50 beats per minute and I play 1 note per click. this might seem very easy and slow but it will build quality and speed and accuracy into my playing. I will also use a clean sound...no fx and a very soft touch with NO TENSION !
After the 2 hour session that completes my gtr practice. I then jam for about 20 minutes over various tracks and apply as much legato as possible.
The remainder of my time goes on some production work for various clients and I will try and work on the new record label web site which is currently under construction.
Not a bad day really.
Keep up the great work and catch you on my next blog
Regards
Chris
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