Practice diary - post 3
Section 1 – My personal targets
Section 1 – My personal targets
This week, I set out to improve upon my stage fright problem as i have had very severe stage fright in the past. i have decided to overcome this as it is definitely not good for a functioning musician to have this. so i have decided to combat this by playing in as many performances as i can. in doing so i feel that this will help me fight my nerves as i will get use to the feeling of being nervous. however all of this is a work in progress and i have not overcome it however i will continue to update the blog and keep everyone posted on this problem.
throughout my lesson in critical listening we looked into a lot of theory, and transposing songs from one key to another. this was very interesting as i have been looking into theory, however some ideas where a bit too complex for me, so some sections of the lesson i didn't understand.
throughout my stylistic awareness lesson we covered 'Red House' by Jimi Hendrix. this song is very hard to learn as it includes a lot of feel in the song with the dynamics and the way that he plays its. This is hard as Hendrix has a signature messy style that i hard to replicate without sounding to sloppy.
this week in band skills, we finished performing 'rolling in the deep' by Adele. i enjoyed this lesson as i faced my stage fright that seemed to be very bad on that particular day and decided to get up and play. i feel that this performance went very well and i am proud of myself for getting up and doing it.
throughout technical development we have been looking at an indie song in the style of 'Mr Brightside' by The Killers. i found this song to be fairly difficult as it is meant to be played very high up the neck of the guitar, so i found myself struggling trying to play some of the notes and let them ring out.
throughout my lesson in critical listening we looked into a lot of theory, and transposing songs from one key to another. this was very interesting as i have been looking into theory, however some ideas where a bit too complex for me, so some sections of the lesson i didn't understand.
throughout my stylistic awareness lesson we covered 'Red House' by Jimi Hendrix. this song is very hard to learn as it includes a lot of feel in the song with the dynamics and the way that he plays its. This is hard as Hendrix has a signature messy style that i hard to replicate without sounding to sloppy.
this week in band skills, we finished performing 'rolling in the deep' by Adele. i enjoyed this lesson as i faced my stage fright that seemed to be very bad on that particular day and decided to get up and play. i feel that this performance went very well and i am proud of myself for getting up and doing it.
throughout technical development we have been looking at an indie song in the style of 'Mr Brightside' by The Killers. i found this song to be fairly difficult as it is meant to be played very high up the neck of the guitar, so i found myself struggling trying to play some of the notes and let them ring out.
Section 2 – Practice updates
This week I have been practicing the solos to 'welcome to the jungle' by Guns N' Roses, however these solos are very tough as Slash has a really specific feel to his playing so i feel that in one more week i will be able to completely lean the solos and hit my deadline of two weeks to learn it.
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