Little My
Practice makes better.
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I know some of my scales very well, some quite well and many not at all (or in my head but not under my fingers and in my ears). I'm shaking up my practice routine (frequency and content) so that scales become something I do a bit of every day once again rather than irregular, doomed blitzes.
I'm working from Aebersold Vol 21 Gettin' It Together which at the moment has me moving chromatically though scales and scale patterns for the major scales, 4 bars for each scale. It has about 40 exercises to do for the first track, which will keep me going for some time. When I get to something I can't do, I slow down and keep working on it. I need to find my metronome too to work on tempo, my daughter's put it somewhere. I also have Vol 24 Major & Minor, but seem to be better with Vol 21 at the moment.
So I'm posting to make the commitment to doing this and will update here as I go along. Today's challenge has been playing in this pattern- 1 3 2 4 3 5 4 6 5 7 6 8 7 9 8. For some of the scales - C major and most of the sharp key signature ones, they fly off my fingers, over two octaves and up and down. For the flat key signatures it's much more of a struggle. So that's what I'll be working on tomorrow, starting with F major.
I'm working from Aebersold Vol 21 Gettin' It Together which at the moment has me moving chromatically though scales and scale patterns for the major scales, 4 bars for each scale. It has about 40 exercises to do for the first track, which will keep me going for some time. When I get to something I can't do, I slow down and keep working on it. I need to find my metronome too to work on tempo, my daughter's put it somewhere. I also have Vol 24 Major & Minor, but seem to be better with Vol 21 at the moment.
So I'm posting to make the commitment to doing this and will update here as I go along. Today's challenge has been playing in this pattern- 1 3 2 4 3 5 4 6 5 7 6 8 7 9 8. For some of the scales - C major and most of the sharp key signature ones, they fly off my fingers, over two octaves and up and down. For the flat key signatures it's much more of a struggle. So that's what I'll be working on tomorrow, starting with F major.