Guitar Practice – Week 5
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 on it (compared to the S series), but nothing that makes too much difference for these figures.
I did manage to breach 100BPM on the scales to 105. I could play uncleanly to around 115 for diatonic scales and 135 on the chromatic scales!
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 / 105bpm
Chromatic exercises
100bpm / 105bpm
Alternating string arpeggios (1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 6, 6, 4, 5, 3, 4, 2, 3, 1)
75bpm / 80bpm
Non-scalar string skipping alternate picking (1, 3, 4, 6, 6, 4, 3, 1)
75bpm / 75bpm
Arpeggio sweep picking exercises
70bpm / 70bpm