Practice Diary Thursday 24th September

I go to my guitar lesson at Sussex academy of music with Daniel Davis and we look at soloing styles and techniques. Mainly we look at sweep picking in major and minor keys. Also we discuss how to get a good sound out of your amp and pedal board. Ive also started practicing my first solo performance which is paranoid android by Radiohead. this is a grade 6/7 song so quite a challenge for me although

Practice Diary Wednesday 23rd September

I practice some improvised soloing to a backing track for about half an hour and work in keeping my playing consistent and clean. This allows me to improve my improvised guitar use in the pentatonic scale. The backing track I used allowed me to incorporate blues notes and the dorian modes. Also I continue to practice puddle by Chon.

Practice DiaryMonday 21st September

I started with some spider exercises to warm up then did about half an hour of practising the parts i know of “puddle” by chon. then did some tapping practice because it's something that i haven't practiced for a while and am a bit rusty on. The song repairs by muse is a really good one for tapping because the intro has a slightly unusual riff which incorporates open strings

Practice Diary saturday 19thSeptember

Just practiced for two hours with my band “Children of the Forest” at ivy arch studios. We spent the session writing a new song and practicing our cover of “They speak with strange accents” by This Town Needs Guns (which is my favorite song at the moment). After getting home i practice playing the intro riff to they "speak with strange accents" because it is quite hard. The song in the genre of math rock so there were quite a few unusual time signatures. For example there is a section in 5/8 and one really strange bit which is in a 15 or something like that. We also played an easy song by the strokes.

Practice Diary wednesday 18th december

I start my practice with some spider exercises for the first 5 minutes to warm up Then move on to practicing my sweep picking in order to improve speed. Next i start learning the song “puddle” by Chon and spend around an hour learning the intro and and verse. Finally I continue practicing a composition that I have been writing for guitar for around a month.  

Practice Diary Wednesday 16th September

I start my practice with some spider exercises for the first 5 minutes to warm up Then move on to practicing my sweep picking in order to improve speed. Next i start learning the song “puddle” by Chon and spend around an hour learning the intro and and verse. This is a difficult song to play because of the fast and intricate picking part at the start. Also the unusual jazz style chords that it leads into. Finally I continue practicing a composition on acoustic guitar that I have been writing for guitar for around a month.