Socio's Learning Log

July 2023

It’s been a few months now since my last update. The last couple of months the balance between practice and play has swung towards the latter.

Rather than continue with a structured practice routine and working towards short term goals, I decided to ride the wave for a while a see where it would take me.

So where did that wave take me? It took me to the crossroads and exposed me more blues, songs that I want to learn and then down a path leading to the land of song writing.

It was quite an enlightening experience as it showed me things that I still need to work on. So it’s back to a more structured practice routine if I want to make any meaningful improvement.

Beginners Grades
I’m going to go back to focusing on one Grade 3 lesson at a time whilst consolidating some of the things learned in the previous grades that have fallen by the wayside and need to be improved

Blues Guitar
As I’m taking Grade 3 lessons one at a time in preparation for reaching Justin’s Intermediate Blues Course I am slowly going to work my way through the additional material in these books:

They are not the same level of teaching as Justin’s lessons but the examples given have been good so far and build up gradually in difficulty.

I’m hoping to record a couple of acoustic blues pieces on my learning log soon. Just some boogie woogie patterns.

Fingerstyle
Following completion of the Beginner Fingerstyle I feel it is best to just focus on learning songs to really consolidate everything that I have learned.

Original Songs
I penned my first two original songs. The first of which I have shared a first take with the community:

Living Your Life In Your Head

I have been thinking recently of producing full band versions with drums and bass which I feel could be a good learning experience.

AVOYP
Over the past few weeks I’ve came to the conclusion that I don’t know enough songs from start to finish. So that is something that I plan on remedying whilst re-consolidating. So to kick things off I decided to start with a Beatles song:

I Should Have Known Better

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