Today is the last day of me going through my practice routine in sheer amounts of detail, as I previously mentioned I will be mentioning my progress briefly within my daily blog posts when I am within college.
I started off with Warm Up, I went through some chords and scales today to mix it up a bit so I don’t get bored straight away, by doing this I ensure myself that I will stay engaged through out and not lose interest straight away…
Next up I went through the The Chromatic scale in two octaves for ten minutes this is something I find fairly easy but after my ten minutes were up I got the hang of it, it is all about the shape and after you understand you can play it anywhere on the fret board starting anywhere on the E string.
I then proceeded to go through The One Pentatonic Minor Scale in harmonised 8th’s, I gave myself five minutes and in this time I found this scale very easy, going up and down. Out of everything I have to learn this has been the easiest thing which is a breath of fresh air in comparison to everything else.
Today I have given myself another technical exercise, this would just so happen to be the Major 9th Arpeggios over one octave and yet again I allocated myself 5 minutes, because I believe that they’re not a desperate essential for guitar but more so bass (in which I also play). I still have to learn them anyway, but when it comes to naming them all I still struggle massively.
Last but not least for the technical part would be the Augmented 5th Chords, I can pay through this chord, but yet again these are another easy part of the exam to get the hang of as everyone uses chords. After another week or so using my practice routine I will get the hang of everything I have to remember to play and the names that go alongside them.
In my thirty minutes of free time I chose to play along to a CD laying around within my room and it just so happened to be The Division Bell by Pink Floyd.
This is yet again another one of my favourite Pink Floyd albums, this album was recorded without Waters on bass so the rest of the band had more creative freedom and you can hear that throughout the album. I went through my favourite tracks and played along with them by ear as I have done a couple times previously this week, this required me to figure out the voicings for each chord and the riffs to each song just like before.
I played through ‘What Do You Want from Me’, ‘Marooned’, ‘Coming Back to Life’ and ‘High Hopes’. I didn’t have the time to figure out the rest of the album as it heavily relies on synth parts, keys and bass parts which are all amazing in their own way.
I cooled down the same way I warmed up so I could then go on to type up some more work then get on with other adult things which I need to get on with. As I said at the beginning of my post I will be updating my progress from now on within my daily blogs so I am looking forward to seeing you all there!
Ellie Thornton Music 