31st Jan –Today in our music lesson we recapped and practiced the A pentatonic scales.We separated into groups (pianos together, guitars together). This was helpful as it allowed me and and Sam, a fellow guitarist in the class, to jam with each other overs the chords and to show each other the licks we had been practising over the past week. Also, as I previously documented I listened to other blues/rock guitarists to learn more licks. I found inspiration in Jimmy Page and Dave Gilmour. What inspired me about there playing was the ability to go from a fast bluesy style of playing using the pentatonic to coming up with beautiful melodies by slowing things down and added in major notes. I pout this into practise into my improvisational work through experimenting wit note choice whilst playing over the 12 bar blues chords.After our group practise work we came together at end of session to jam 12 bar blues again, with solos. This was fun as we could all hear how much we had all improved.
My target for next weeks lesson is just to keep practising different blues licks and phrasing. I will do this by keep on listening to a variety of blues guitarists and playing over different 12 bar blues backing tracks.
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