21st March

21st March – In todays lesson we listened to last week’s recording of could you be loved that we had done, and then jammed the reggae piece again with the finalised structure. As we had all gone away and practised our improvised parts individually when we came back into the room  to practise we all had a better idea of what we were going to do for our individual improvised section.
The pattern I had came up with I will base my improvised section is a riff and phrase focused around the B minor pentatonic scale using octaves and doubles stops to create a bluesy but still raggae feel for my phrase. The tab for what I was playing is this and for the rest of the bar after I played this pattern I would add double stops across the 7 and 9 th frets on the g and b strings and different bends on the 7 and 9th fret of the g string.

E---------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------
G---------------7 (1/4bend)----------
D------9------------------------9-------
A----------------------------------------
E--7------7------------------------------

In the second lesson we attempted a brief jam on brand new original material that I came up with. I had wrote a riff and we all played round it for a while adding more and more texture to the riff and building up instrument parts through experimentation. The riff was based around an e 5 chord and an a chord consisting of just an a note and a minor third. the riff was fairly slow and had lots of 'breathing space' allowing for other ideas to be layered on top of it and it also had a lot of tension to it which allowed made it feel like it could be built up into something else given we had time to keep playing it for hours.

My target for next week is to just keep practising I need to for the improvised sections and going over all of the scales. I will do this by playing over my recorded loops of the solo sections and experimenting with new ideas. I will give myself a week to do this as it gives me enough time to nail everything for next weeks lesson.