Piano

First day of starting new piano course. Doing ok!

P I A N O

Still playing guitar. Bought a piano course today.

G u I t a r

Spent a controversial amount of time this weekend practicing guitar. Band practice this weekend went well; I get to sing Bruce Channel’s “Hey Baby.” Using a different strategy for soloing that uses:

1. Considering using some modes to the pentatonic shapes.

2. Instead of shifting shapes each time the chords of a song change, I found it easier to play (and sound better) by changing the pentatonic shapes less frequently.

3. Interesting playing a corresponding scale that is the minor (if the song calls for a major) or major (if the song calls for a minor) of the given chord. 

Oh yea …. and still may sign up for piano lessons (on-line). 🤷‍♀️ 

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Made a recording of “All the Things You Are,” chord melody style and then added a solo. Listened back to it, and decided the solo just wasn’t what I wanted to sound like. So I deleted the solo. What was left, the chord melody, wasn’t so great, but it was ok.

Again, it’s just a reminder that I have to actually rehearse the solos … work on them … not at the point where I can solo on the fly. Difficult changing pentatonic patterns quickly within the constraints of the chords.

Had a little dental work. Yesterday I lost a filling from eating candy. And I’m still dealing with a loose top tooth. Long story short: got the filling work, but putting the front tooth repair on hold due to $.

Nice Saturday

Was up about 5:45 AM with the dogs. Picked up guitar than and practiced chord melody song. Back to sleep then went to band practice. Good practice there today. I’m singing that old great song “Hey Baby,” and also “Heartbreak Hotel.” Also did done work on the CCR song “Down on the Corner.” Spent some time after that working up the chord melody song: “All the Things You Are.” Almost done it. It’s taking some work!! Still haunted by a wish to play piano, but the side of me that hesitates is still winning.

Another

Another good practice day. Went over scales (a little), but spent more time relearning chord melody to “All the Things You Are.”

Good Practice

Good practice day. Not a lot of quantity time, but put some good time in. Back to my notes to relearn “All the Things You Are” chord melody style. Sounding good. Went over some scale stuff too.