Guitar

I don’t have too much to say on the guitar front. I’ve done the first 6 days of Guitareo’s “Iconic Chord Progressions”. So far it’s been

1. “Pop” I V vi iv
2. “50’s” I vi iv V
3. “Jazz” I vi ii V
4. “Punk” I V IV V
5. “Other Pop” vi iv I V
6. “Alt Rock” I IIIb VIIb V

Nothing earthshaking about it. Just good to practice chord progressions and changing chords in fluid playing. I’ve been plugging my guitar into the computer with an iRig HD and using Amplitube to get a basic amp tone and throw in a virtual distortion pedal for some grit on the “Punk” and “Alt Rock” days. Much moreso than with Rocksmith, I can have my volume above the backing volume and really hear what I’m playing and the mistakes I’m making so I can work to correct them.

For 2025, I am going to start with a “100 days of practice” for the second year in a row. Last year I just kept track on a 10x10 grid on a sheet of letter paper. This year I’ve decided this year to supplement with blog posts - probably on a roughly weekly schedule - talking about what I actually did and what I intend to do the next week.

I haven’t had a regularly updated blog since the days of Livejournal. I can’t guarantee that I’ll have a regularly updated blog now. Every now and then I try again. After LJ went to the Russians, I migrated to Dreamwidth and promptly never posted again. I made a Wordpress and let’s say it’s definitely not my thing. Then I moved on to the world of static generated sites with an Octopress themed Jekyll blog hosted on GitHub … which no longer builds and isn’t worth the effort to fix. Hell no, I’m not linking to any of them in case anyone (of the zero people who will look at this) is wondering.