Gotta learn some actual songs on the guitar!

Guitar

Got the lyrics for Jordan's song written out. Now I have to figure out the chords. The chords he gave me don't sound quite right. I also need to find some other chords so I can play some of my old '70's Christian music. (Keith Green, Honeytree, 2nd Chapter of Acts, etc.)

Tinwhistle

Road to Lisdoonvarna
Star of the County Down
Si Bheag Si Mhor
Morrison's
South Wind
Cooley's Reel

Fiddle

Ida Red
Bilem Cabbage
Old Joe Clark
Cripple Creek

Late night practice...

Got home from work at 9:30 p.m. Bob's gone for the moment, so I snuck in some practice!

Guitar

Finger workout

Strum and pick chords

Practice folk fingerstyle 1

Practice blues shuffles

1 minute changes:
C7-D 38
D7-B7 52
G7-G 56
Am-A 66
E7-A 68

Ear training
He played 10 chords and I had to guess whether they were minor, major or 7ths.
I got 7 out of ten right. Those differences can be subtle!

Tinwhistle

Morrison's

Day off!

Guitar

Finger workout

Strummed and picked all chords.

1 minute changes:
D7-B7 45
C-G7 56
Fmaj7-A 54
Am-G 64
C7-D 33

Worked on Folk Fingerstyle 1

Quick practice before work!

Bob went to church and I'm going to work soon, so I'm trying to practice a little of this and that!

Guitar

Finger Workout

Strumming all chords

1 Minute/Air changes practice
C7-E7 34
B7-A7 49
C-Dm 46
D7-Dm 50

Blues shuffle
Watched the video again and figured out the shuffle he's playing so I can practice.
Here's the progression of chords he plays:

E7 A7 E7 E7 A7 A7 E7 E7 B7 A7 E7 B7 (play one bar of each chord as shown)

Repeat with a different ending which I haven't figured out yet!

There's the timer. Gotta go!

A "little" guitar practice...

Guitar

Didn't get as far as I'd planned. Seems Justin's guitar lesson site is experiencing a few problems and I get a lot of "broken link" boxes. Anyway, I did...

Finger Workout-1st fret

Pluck and strum on all chords.

1 minute changes:
C7-E7 34
B7-A7 44
D-Dm 58
G7-C 50
D7-Dm 50

Fiddle

Shortnin' Bread
Ida Red
Bilem Cabbage
Cripple Creek
Old Joe Clark

Not getting great on the fiddle, but I'm getting less inhibited about trying new things. Who cares if I'm holding the bow exactly right! It's comfortable for me. I don't think all of those old timey mountain fiddlers really worried about that. They just practiced until they got the sounds they wanted. I'll never be a classical violinist...but I sure do like to listen to them! Onward and upward!

Tinwhistle

Road to Lisdoonvarna
Star of the County Down
Cooley's Reel
Si Bheag, Si Mhor

Not getting great on tinwhistle either, but it's getting a little more intuitive to match my fingers to the dots in the tablature. That's progress! Now I'm going to copy off some new songs at www.whistlethis.com.

Vaya con dios! (My language lesson of the day. Go with God!)

Blues shuffle!

Guitar

Finger workout

Pick and strum all chords

1 minute changes:
C7-E7 30
B7-A7 42
D-Dm 46
G7-C 40
D7-Dm 42

Rhythm Guitar-watched video about shuffle/swing rhythm

Practiced "common chord sequences" for blues. I got a pretty good shuffle going! Fun! Look out Johnny Lang!

Been a while...

Was sick. Didn't practice for a few days.

Guitar

I just started Stage 5, so I didn't get through a whole practice routine. It takes a while to watch the videos about the new stuff to be sure I don't miss anything.

Finger Workout

Picked and strummed through all chords learned so far.

1 minute changes:
G7-G 46
B7-Fmaj7 33
C7-A7 31
Dm-E7 38
D7-A 47

Learned about using the note circle.

Began learning about triplets.

Fiddle

Shortnin' Bread
Ida Red
Bilem Cabbage Down
Cripple Creek (tried advanced variation)
Old Joe Clark