Saturday, August 24, 2002

Great information on the Co-Mando website! Practice tips, chord info, etc.

Focus tunes -

As long as I live
Spanish Grass
Clinch Mt Backstep

Going back - starting today - and learning the scales. I've known G for a while - but I haven't used it except for warmup. This will definitely have an effect when I try to improvise...

Sunday, August 18, 2002

Been spending a lot of time taking recordings and separating them out. Hope to use them as 'virtual practice sessions'.

I'm going to start posting 'Advice from others' - - - Points that other folks have shared with me. I hope to elaborate on the main idea with how I've tried to internalize their advice. (Once I figure it out, I'll archive these with permanent links...)

The first one was on how to get a 'Bluegrass' sound on a song. The advice was to get your right hand moving like your foot would be tapping. Using that as your rhythm, I expect, you get a different style of playing. I've been practicing that way a lot this week, but I fall into adding tremolo on the longer notes...