Diary of a Hendrix freak

evolucian

Diary entry 1

1. First up, I need to get my stamina to a decent level. What I need to do:

Work on/create legato exercises (left hand)
Chordal staccato/push ups (left/right hand)
Picking fluidness - alternate/economy/chordal arpeggiation (right hand)
Hybrid picking (right)
Finger picking fluidness (right)
Rhythmic variations (left/right)
Bending (left)

2. Sight reading

3. Try to get through the archaic Schoenberg’s books

4. Learn 3 songs a day – sadly they can’t be cool songs. Things that students can do ☹

5. Write at least two songs per week. One guitar driven/one orchestral

I now just have to organize this into bite size chunks, so I will be posting again soon.

briang-telkomsa-net

Man you've set ambitious goals for yourself hope you have lots of time on your hands - all the best
Is Schoenberg more archaic than Mel Bay?

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Wow, that's a lot, but I'm sure it looks more than it really is as you work on sigh treading when you're learning pieces and stuff like that. I have some LH and RH exercises that may be what you're looking for...pardon the bad scanning but here they are :

For the LH:

https://www.box.com/s/lkclzuehekz466l56pwe

https://www.box.com/s/z3fnb2zkfmcna1g12wbl

https://www.box.com/s/exinhb7g3ohh16vkcp82

And RH:

https://www.box.com/s/xywqps0i2qb6khtuuda0

https://www.box.com/s/xtqzq6nroyzd0onpdtrw

https://www.box.com/s/ga1uc7j1iiv1cky65ji3

https://www.box.com/s/49z948kgz9yrcfat35zl

https://www.box.com/s/yyoonh6bkzmj5udzo6c6

https://www.box.com/s/nv87vr49lg2s05997kwt

Some might be upside down, but hey. Hope it helps! btw what's the fascination with Schoenberg?

Squonk

good stuff

evolucian

briang wrote: Man you've set ambitious goals for yourself hope you have lots of time on your hands - all the best
Is Schoenberg more archaic than Mel Bay?

Hehe.. Mel Bay could only wish. Schoenberg is a classical nut/professor who was the pioneer of atonality (aka asstone music). So apart from the atonality aspect, the guy has superior books regarding classical form. Hence the language.

Quote from wiki:
Both Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler recognized Schoenberg's significance as a composer; Strauss when he encountered Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, and Mahler after hearing several of Schoenberg's early works.

Strauss turned to a more conservative idiom in his own work after 1909 and at that point dismissed Schoenberg. Mahler adopted him as a protégé and continued to support him even after Schoenberg's style reached a point which Mahler could no longer understand; Mahler worried about who would look after him after his death. Schoenberg, who had initially despised and mocked Mahler's music, was converted by the "thunderbolt" of Mahler's Third Symphony, which he considered a work of genius. Afterward he "spoke of Mahler as a saint"

So he's one of those ancient bunnies. Older than grandma kind of thing.

Viccy wrote: Wow, that's a lot, but I'm sure it looks more than it really is as you work on sigh treading when you're learning pieces and stuff like that. I have some LH and RH exercises that may be what you're looking for......

Some might be upside down, but hey. Hope it helps! btw what's the fascination with Schoenberg?

Thanks Vix.. I'll check out your exercises just now. The list seems like a lot, but a lot of the time the techniques cross over so we're doing two in one. I had this awesome little exercise I was working on right after that post... dripping with sweat and hands getting tired quickly - I'll tab it out just now. Alas... the little hitler (aka little shitty brother) pissed me off and my fist caressed the wall instead of his god awful ugly face. So taking a wee break till the hands heal a little.

domhatch

well evo, good luck man. you've bitten off more than i could hope to stew, let alone chew, given a month of sundays. last night was an interesting one for me. had a long chat with the ol' instructor chappie, about setting goals, long and medium-term, and a plan for getting there. me, i first want to make sure i have a set list of 8 to 10 songs under the fingers by the end of the year, but really under the fingers. starting with purple haze, which we began last year, then on to sultans of swing and little wing, which he gave me last night. this should be interesting.

stuff i want to work on this year include:
- sweep picking (because i just can't do it, and i think it's a good technique to have under your belt. comes in handy when you're playing a lot of knopfler, too)
- hybrid picking
- common fingerpicking techniques
- knowing the notes on the neck a lot better
- a bit of sight reading. ok, so this is an all or nothing game...

that's a good start. sorry for highjacking your diary.
dh

chrisbark

Good luck Evo. I have similar goals (altho less ambitious) so I'm gonna see how well I can follow along.

Which Schoenberg books are you tackling ? I tried to work through Theory of Harmony for a while but I didnt really get far. Gonna try tackle my jazz theory books instead this year and work on chord substitutions and coltrane cycles and all that good stuff.

Thanks for the excercises Viccy, my right hand technique is pretty retarded and based on travis picking rather than traditional classical so my brain and fingers are getting a good workout on page 1 of the RH exercises ?

Dom ... are you still going to Tony for lessons ? He has been a huge help since I started lessons with him last year.

domhatch

chrisbark wrote: Dom ... are you still going to Tony for lessons ? He has been a huge help since I started lessons with him last year.

hi chris

nope, trying guitarexcellence. mainly because they come to your house, and i get along quite well with the guy i'm with, although he's quite a bit younger than i am. i stopped going to tony a long time ago, and only went for about six or seven months but, man, what a teacher. in those few months i went to tony, my playing improved substantially, across all areas. i developed (of course) a huge interest in jazz, but my understanding of playing music on the guitar - regardless of genre - deepened remarkably. he's played with, and taught, some of south africa's real talents.

ideally, i'd love to go back to tony, but time and distance are against me. my kids were much younger then, and they are more demanding now. i can't really leave mrs dom alone with them for two, two point five hours on the weekend any more. you'll probably know from experience that a session with tony is a bit more than just a guitar lesson ?

have fun, and sponge everything you can from the guy. he's a great guitarist and an awesome human being. (quite often, i find, these things go hand in hand.)
dh

evolucian

Sorry guys... big frikkin waste of time this thread was. Picked up the guitar on Monday for the first time and played for a day - sadly it's like nothing changed in my two year absence from it. I say sadly because it all came back so there's nothing for me to show you. (I know - just like someone said of this miracle on Tuesday - "You're just a f'ing freak" )

I will need to work up some legato exercises though so I'll put that up when its done. If anyone's interested of course.

My apologies again for not completing this for you guys

domhatch

hey evo, don't beat yourself up man. we all go through it to one degree or another. i've given up lessons entirely, will sort myself out. do what you gotta do, just make sure you do something - even if something is playing for your own enjoyment. i hate to hear of a fellow axe slinger go down in anything other than a blaze of glory!

burn out or fade away man
dh