UPDATE:
Well, okay, while still plugging away on various bits of Mods 8, 9, 10 and a whole lot of 11, I decided yesterday to give Module 12 a go.
I’m happy to say I can do the A minor pentatonic scale slowly, looks like that won’t be a horrid thing to practice.
Power chords are a whole different animal. AND JUST WHAT IS THIS THING ABOUT SUDDENLY HAVING TO MUTE STRINGS G B AND E AFTER TRYING NOT TO MUTE B AND E IN THE F BARRE!!!
Anyway, I moaned about that over on the power chord lesson discussion. Including the fact that the few power chords I managed sound HORRIBLE no matter what I do with my fingers or what switches I change on my guitar!
Okay, rant over as we all know practice, practice, practice.
Other tidbits: Module 11:
I’ve finally got the La Bamba riff and happy birthday coming along rather well.
Push strumming practice I can do fairly well with several different chords.
Hammer on is fairly good till I get to the pinkie portion. That little sucker still mostly mutes rather than hammer the string.
(Interesting side note, for the heck of it yesterday I decided to practice with my lowly Squire Bullet instead of my lovely PRS and found the F barre chord easier to play!
Also learned that I hated the strings on that guitar compared to the ones on my PRS, AND then discovered in the hammer on practice that on the high E string around the 12th fret there is no sound when hammering on the next fret because the E string is already resting tight against the metal strip. Apparently, I must have a high fret at that point. Not quite sure what to do about that, yet. Not a high priority.)
I’ve pretty much nailed the SUS chords though unfortunately the only song I am playing that has one is Wonderwall which I am not enjoying that much. I’ll have to look around a bit.
My F barre chord is pretty good, I can change fairly well from C or Am to it in practice but not fast enough in songs. I’d hate to go back to OMC for it, but I may have to.
Fingerstyle is giving me trouble in that I have to look at the picking hand a lot, anchoring with the pinkie doesn’t help much, it seems to strain my hand and I’m having trouble getting the high E to ring out, my ring finger angle or something just isn’t right. I’m using House of the Rising Sun for it, and I have to go so slowly! But at least my mini-F chord sounds good in it!
I think the ear training thing with the 2 minute improvisation song had run its useful course, so I dropped it, I’ve got to drop out some more things though because the technique section of my practice routine is becoming rather unwieldy especially as I’ve now added a couple things from Module 12 to it. (the rest of Module 12 will have to wait till I get a handle on the power chords). It’s an hour long before getting to the fun song practice stuff.
I seem to be getting lost in what I should be practicing vs what happens if I don’t practice something for too long, use it or lose it? How long do I keep plugging away on happy birthday and La Bamba, for example? There is just SO MUCH STUFF!
Okay, so to end this update/rant post I will say that 2 days ago, on Sunday afternoon, I don’t know what magical fairy blessed me, but I was super energized all day, got lots and lots of things around the house accomplished, including canning a gallon’s worth of the first maple syrup of the season.
When I got to my practice, split into 3 different sessions, everything was awesome. By the end of the evening, I had practiced 2 hours and 33 minutes. About an hour of techniques and the rest songs. It was a great feeling. (I probably should have kept going because yesterday everything went wrong!) ![:rofl: :rofl:](https://community.justinguitar.com/images/emoji/twitter/rofl.png?v=12)
I hope to do that again. Someday.