Guitar Practice – Week 4
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 my unclear max. My main improvement was in string skipping and sweep picking.
Here’s my improvement over this last week, first figure start of week and the last figure the end of the week. All tempos are playing semi-quavers.
Diatonic scales and modes, Ionian to Ionian
100bpm / 100bpm
Chromatic exercises
100bpm / 100bpm
Alternating string arpeggios (1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 6, 6, 4, 5, 3, 4, 2, 3, 1)
70bpm / 75bpm
Non-scalar string skipping alternate picking (1, 3, 4, 6, 6, 4, 3, 1)
65bpm / 75bpm
Arpeggio sweep picking exercises
65bpm / 70bpm
This marks close to one month and it has really paid off. I am much more accurate and faster. I have also found myself writing better solos as well. If this trend continues, it will be six months until I reach goal number one of 130bpm.
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