Miscellaneous Musings

It's one thing to be in awe of your favorite guitar player. It's another to see them play live. It's yet another to try an replicate their playing yourself.

It's something I've very much grown to appreciate the more and more I play guitar. When I first started out, I was probably not unlike most guitar players that grew up listening (and loving) 80's rock and metal - wanting to be the next Yngwie, Vai or Van Halen. Wow - was I young an naive!

New Songs

As an update to my last post, here are the songs that I've recently been working on:

For the Classroom Dragons:

• Walking the Dog - Aerosmith
• Big Ten Inch Record - Aerosmith
• Manic Depression (including the vocal parts) - Hendrix
• Ice Cream Man - VH
• Tush - ZZ
• Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder, but we're leaning towards the RHCP version
• Shake a Tailfeather - The Blues Brothers (I think it's Ray Charles, but I'm not sure)
• Shakey Ground - Etta James
• I Want to Take You Higher - Sly & the Family Stone
• Let the Good Times Roll - Freddie King
• Telephone Song - SRV

Recent Practice Routine

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'!