Robert Conti meets Joe Doctermann meets Charlie Christian meets Me

An interesting day. Went over repertoire. Continue to add more to the Satin Doll Conti improv. But here it gets a little interesting:

I like Conti's ideas of how a person learns to play guitar. I decided to use Conti's approach (which apparently had a connection to Wes Montgomery) and merge it with the Dochtermann book. I like the Doctermann stuff and I think if I utilize it with Conti's approach to learning, it will be a good thing. 

I don't think there's any way around memorizing. So I'll work on memorizing lead stuff.

So there I go. Here's what I'm working on:

1) Continuing to build my chord melody repertoire

2) Using Robert Conti's "Ticket to Improv., Volume 1."

3) Memorizing some stuff from the Dochtermann book.