I had a gap in guitar practice because I was starting to get RSI back. It’s been a fair few weeks now and no change. I can still play, but not the scales and exercises to a metronome. I have improved enough that all the solos I have written are now quite playable but it [...]
I was sick this week so I didn’t practice much. Ross from MCD Guitars has finished the refurb on my JEM and it was a pleasure to play it again. The neck was taken off, sanded down and polished, new pots put in and a new trem installed. I can play a few BPM faster [...]
Again I have been slack. Belinda is back in hospital so I have been busy with that, and I have also had a creative spurt so I have written a bit of music instead. 100bpm is still proving to be a barrier, but I think I will be up to 105 next week. 115 is [...]
I practiced more this week and have improved mostly in consistency. 100bpm is proving to be a tough barrier. I could play the chromatic exercises at 110bpm reasonably well, but still would think of 100 as the clean speed. I changed the sweep picking exercises to arpegios. Here’s my improvement over this last week, first [...]
I only practised three times this week. Mostly to do with slackness, and a little because I learnt “sleep walk”. I’ve been asked to demo an MCD guitar at the guitar expo this year, so I will be learning some classic songs to play. I went backwards this week, but at least I can play [...]
It’s been about two years since I practiced my scales and exercises on guitar to a metronome. I’ve been writing a fair bit of progressive and neo-baroque rock recently and I wrote a solo at 260bpm quavers, which I can’t play cleanly, so I need to get up to speed. Last time I checked (two [...]
I quickly banged together a joomla website today for my alternative rock band, Duty of Man. Have a look! DutyOfMan.Net I will make it a bit prettier in the future. As usual, XHTML, CSS2. It doesn’t work in IE 6 yet (the silly thing doesn’t support PNG transparancy) so I’ll convert it to GIF soon. [...]
The alt rock band I’m in, Duty of Man, has a gig coming up soon! 15 Mar 2008 6:00pm Kruger Parade Baptist Church Cnr of Kruger Pde and Henderson St, Redbank Plains, Queensland We are house band for a youth battle of the bands competition. See you there if you come! (I hope you do) [...]
We finished recording after three session – there was time limits involved. We will have two songs in a month and rest between Nov – Dec. My band, Duty of Man went to elevatecq and played on the main stage. The setup was quite extraordinary with two big screens, huge speakers and several amps in the backline. The down [...]
Today is the first day Duty of Man are recording. Have to be finished this month! All the rest of the band has gone to the studio, but I need to work