Well, true to form, it didn't take long to veer from the once-a-day practice schedule I set up for myself. But there's good reason - between the holidays and my work busy season kicking in, I need to focus my time on the guitar to some basic exercises to keep things limber and learn (or re-learn) songs for both the Classroom Dragons and Scrap Metal, both of which have shows coming up in a month - yeah, it's a month away, but when you're working 55-60 hours a week, you need to prioritize your noodlin'!
As far as exercises go, basically its a matter of running through two things right now
- a finger warm-up exercise I've read/seen in umpteen guitar magazines, cited by God-knows-how-many guitarist and
- practicing a finger pattern I learned from Ben Sherman to enable greater use of th fretboard when improvising - sort of a "connect the dots" type thing (great stuff for work with the Dragons as those solos I rarely, if ever play the same thing twice)
Here's the warm-up:
The "connect the dots" pattern will follow shortly.
Later!
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