Been working on my guitar practice. I remain a terrible guitarist, but I enjoy the learning process and have been trying to use my practice time more effectively. I take lessons weekly. Current areas of focus:
- Working on 7th chords, and some 9th chord forms, as well
- Working on a mix of holding the pick with two fingers and using the remaining three fingers for individual string picking and arpeggios
- Working on better recognizing which notes in a given chord form are the root, third, and fifth
- Still trying to memorize the fretboard (in EADGBE), which continues to elude me
- Still working on one song at a time over an extended period of time
- Voice leading remains a big priority for me
- Still working on using my guitar through a synthesizer, but not mistaking the time with the synth as guitar practice, per se
- Ordered a nifty device that will, apparently, let me isolate each of the six strings for individual processing and/or recording, something I’ve previously attempted to approximate with equalizers and filter banks
- Now I need an audio interface with sufficient inputs to take advantage of the above nifty device, likely something like this