Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Well sure has been busy today, have been up since 9 and spent a huge majority of the day practicing guitar.  I'm happy to say i've accomplished lots today and hope to keep this determination going throughout the week regardless of how sluggish i feel after 8-10 hours working.

Got a good start on learning "The Unforgiven" got the acoustic rhythm part down at the beginning along with the main intro and parts of the verse.  Yesterday my brother was showing me stuff that he had learned on the guitar in his lessons.  Showed me about the sweep picking technique.  Was happy to see that he had gotten that good, but at the same time i'm thinking "i gotta start practicing more, hes ahead of me if if he knows just a little bit about sweep picking and thats very important to know when it comes to shredding"  I looked up a video on you tube so now i got a good.  Hope to have the first part mastered in a week or 2.  Not gonna be easy.

Its gonna feel good going back to work again tomorrow, being over my cold and having more energy i'm confident i can put in a good 10 hour day, and afterward go visit my sister.  Haven't seen her since Christmas, i'll have to show her all the pictures i got from the Heart concert i bet she'll be jealous of them lol.

11 comments:

  1. "The Unforgiven" is a sweet song. It's one of the first Metallica songs I ever heard, and it's definitely a favorite. You seem like a man who appreciates good rock music, so you should check out my album reviews blog and send me some suggestions for albums to write about. Rock on, dude!

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  2. Learn Battery next. Easy as hell ;)

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  3. The dedication you have to guitar is really impressive, after an 8-10 hour work day I'm basically a vegetable until I go to bed =/

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  4. glad you're well again. Keep up the good work on the guitar! post a video soon.

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  5. Other people are great for motivation, try to see it as a challange to keep ahead/by on somebody elses skill. You will practice a lot more

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  6. Just gotta say I LOVE your banner picture. Enjoy the mini-reunion!

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  7. keep up the work. you should record yourself playing something. give a good before and after.

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  8. Glad to hear your practicing guitar! I hope you don't let your brother get better than you.

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  9. Good to hear you're about over your cold, I'm about half way through mine, sucks so bad. Also congrats to your bro , first learning how to sweep can be a pain but once you get the basic idea and motion behind it, it literally becomes one of the easiest techniques on guitar.

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