First off, I just signed up to go to the Nashville National Guitar Workshop 07/21 - 07/26. My course elective was Rock 3, which I felt I wanted to re-visit after so many years of working on my jazz chops (i.e. 2 handed sweep tap arpeggios with natural tongue harmonics ala Steve Vai - oh, forgot to mention the laser light gloves that I have to wear while playing Bad Horsie LOL).

So, knowing that I have about 6 or so weeks before camp, I'm going to revise my weekly goals in order that I prepare for the camp rather than my end of year goals. Essentially, that means more focus on techniques (sweep, tapping, alt picking, economy picking), scales that I need to refresh on (all the modes of the harmonic and melodic minor) and of course, lots of tunes in this vein (Vai, Van Halen, Dream Theater, etc).

* One note regarding tunes - there is no way in 6 weeks I'll get a ton of tunes down, especially when you talk about Vai and DT. What I do is listen to the tunes and pull out lines, riffs, chord progressions, etc that sound good and which I think will help with my goals.

Goals - 06/10 - 06/16 (Key Center - E minor)
1. Continue with Technique exercises at 104 bpm (16th notes). Work on new Steve Vai exercise I found in this months Guitar Techniques. (if it is helpful, i'll post here shortly)
2. Reading - 15 minutes a day
3. Ear - 20 minutes a day
4. Sweep Picking - major/minor arpeggios first inversion
5. Get Harmonic Minor modes under my fingers again (need work especially on modes 3 & 6)
6. Daily 10 - all scales and arpeggios, excluding item #5, will get a 10x run as a finishing exercise to my technique work.
7. Tapping - tap major and minor arpeggios on single string
8. Identify a song and start working on a riff/lick/solo from that song