Music Lessons, Little Rock
Practice Journal - Week 1 Goals
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- Key of the week - C Major - all studies will be in this key.
- Map out arpeggio, pentatonic and chord form associated with the seven diatonic modes. With all 3, look for color tones to build out lines and chord tones.
- Technique - 20 minutes every day - linear (10 minutes) and Angular (10 minutes). I'm backing mm down to 100 bpm and using 16th notes. This is an easy speed, but I need to start observing where the tension starts in my right arm (right now, I really feel it at 120+bpm 16ths).
- Sight Reading - 20 minutes every day
- Ear Training - 20 minutes (10 minutes interval recognition and 10 minutes pitch matching with my voice)
- Vibrato - 5 minutes, one note, every day. Work on subtle, aggressive, slow, rapid, BB style, etc.
- Trills - 1 minute each finger grouping (1+2, 1+3, 1+4, 2+3, 2+4, 3+4). Strive for even tone on both the hammer and pull. Work to build endurance.
- Cmajor Modes - Review, intervals, 2 and 3 note studies on adjacent and non-adjacent string sets
- Arpeggio Review - Maj 7, Min 7, Dom 7, Min7b5 - all inversions (this needs the most work - my arps have fallen behind the last few months with regard to technical ability to pull them off cleanly at high tempos)
- Bass Lines - Technique and creating a new groove, every day
- Song Transcription - KWS "While We Cry" and Wayne Shorters "Fall"
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