Rode exercise bike for 1/2 hour.

Rode exercise bike for 1/2 hour.

From @SuccessFastlane (on Twitter): "Free yourself from the thought that you are what you are. Don't let your options for the future be limited by your choices of the past."

Rode exercise bike for 1/2 hour.

Horse Head

I showed my son that when I am refused a first favor, I never ask a second:

Vacation Pics

More Keef / More Scales / Guitar

• Continue to read "Life" by Keith Richards. Man I was a teenager in my bedroom playing along to Muddy Waters....

• Continuing to learn scales

• Shopping on line for guitars....saw an Epiphone Genesis that is tempting....as are Stratocasters

Guitar Stones

• Learning from the Chad Johnson book "GUITARIST'S GUIDE TO SCALES OVER CHORDS." On vacation for a bit I do not have my guitar with me, but I have managed to learn scale forms mentally with the book.

• Some days ago I sold my Epiphone ES-339 Pro. More recently, I bought a great guitar that I hope to hold onto for a while: an Epiphone Casino with a hard shell case. I had one before, sold it, missed it, and glad I bought it again. I think the one I have now is even better than that first one?

• Reading Keith Richards' book "Life," and it's fasciating.

Improv

• Tried some improv on guitar to the Beatles "All My Lovin." Needs work!

Improvising

• Rode exercise bike for 1/2 hour. Yesterday I tried some improvising.

• Trying to improvise on the guitar using the Silver book. Achieving some interesting results! Learning that taking it slow is key.

• Rode exercise bike for 1/2 hour.

Touching Base

• Haven't posted in a little bit so I figured I'd just "touch base." Everything musically for me is kind of in a state of flux these days with no real definite personal sense of purpose other than learning to use the Silver book to learn improv. I've been working o that stuff.

- Almost bought an Epiphone B.B. King guitar yesterday, but I decided against it.

- Must get back to exercise and diet.

- Still in the blues band as well as the jazz/rock and roll band. 

Me and Music

Every once in a while I don't know where I'm going with music. Moving now towards going back to the Sudnow Method (I love the sounds of solo piano more so than the sounds of solo guitar), and going back to the Marc Silver book with regards to guitar improv.

The Silver book is fun.

Guitar

Here comes a new challenge:

• It will last one year.

• Utilize the Joseph Alexander book to learn improv.

• Utilize the book "THROUGH CHORD-MELODY & BEYOND" By Howard Morgen to learn chord melody.