Sundays at home can be a chance to have a scattered practice across the entire day, which happened to be the case today. Yesterday I picked up the September issue of Guitar Techniques to try and find new ideas for things to practice. Not that I don’t already have plenty to do but I feel like exploring new things. As it happens, the current issue has a focus on Acoustic Blues, and that suits me just fine. I found myself exploring the likes of Robert Johnson, listening to Clapton again and so on. And while I seem more and more attracted to the Blues as a genre, it’s interesting to note that some styles are more attractive to me than others. So for example, while I like Johnson’s style, I’m not so keen on Doc Watson. Perhaps it’s the bluegrass, that’s not really my kind of thing.

Anyway, back to practice, not only did I did some more Gary Moore, with a little bit more ease than last time, I found the “one minute lick” to a great little thing to practice. It’s played over A7 and uses all 12 notes but in a very cool choppy rhythm (“Swing feel”). I picked this one up surprisingly quickly, and I think the rhythm helped a lot. They recommend you analyse it and try to come up with similar ideas. I might try that if I ever find the time later.

One more thing about GT though is that I’m definitely not gonna be able to practice everything in it. The George Lynch stuff in there is insane and while I’d love to play like this, there’s no point my wasting my time trying to work it out at the minute. I may as well try to learn the whole of Fuzz Universe (the song). Still lots of tidbits to pick at so definitely worth it