Practice diary - post 5

Practice diary - post 5
Section 1 – My personal targets

this week, i decided to carry on improving Come together as i have decided that i would like to perform this in the two song assesment after term. so i have been playing it in time with the recording and learning the solo.

i have also been practicing"dancing in the street" by Martha and the Vandellas. i found that this song is really easy and i managed to learn it within 30 minutes. i am practicing this song so that i can perform it in two weeks time for stylistic awareness.

in technical development, we have been looking at the caged system and how it works. i found this to be really interesting and useful as sometimes when playing, i cannot find the chord that i am looking for in one certain area of the fretboard.

I feel that learning the whole of the caged system will greatly improve my fretboard knowledge and make me a better, more experienced player. i have previously looked at the caged system (as mentioned in Post 1, although i only learnt the basics of it).

Throughout band skills we have been performing 'come together' in random groups. i found this to be really fun as i enjoy the song, so i didn't have any problem with any chord changes and so on. i also decided to get up to perform. i was really happy about how the performance went, apart from the solo where i couldn't hear myself so after the performance i realised that i played some bad notes.

section 2 - other

i also decided to attend a session after my lectures. So on monday, i decided to go and attend a wellbeing workshop with a friend. i felt that this was really helpful for me as it helped me relax and stop stressing about small things that were bugging me. i will attend try to carry on attending the sessions when i can. however i have found that trying to attend some of the sessions is rather difficult so i will try to attend as many sessions as i can.