Recently I have felt the need to go back to a more structured way of learning, so I set myself a few goals:
- Improve my timekeeping. Not that it’s bad, but there’s always room for improvement.
- Continue with the Practical Music Theory course (currently in grade 5)
- I started to read Modes Parts 1 - 9 so in order to be able to actually use modes, I’ll tackle most things related to the major scale, especially the practice routines in Major Scale Maestro 1 and Major Scale Maestro 2
- Back when I started PMT I printed the workbooks, so I’ll finish them, too
As a learning aid (and a tool for creativity, hopefully), I bought a Ditto+ looper pedal. This is my first ever looper pedal (well, any pedal besides my Vox wah-wah) so I will need some time to get familiar with how it works. I saw a video on various looper pedals recommended to first-time users by Andertons where they spoke favourably of it. The possibility of importing existing backing tracks was particularly interesting. Check out a demo here.
So my plan is to use this looper pedal to work on timekeeping as well as for jamming/improvising over backing tracks as part of the various lessons. I’m quite excited about how it will go.