completing the series

Post 90 of 90.

Rainy day, with a drop in temperature.

After working on some drum sequence programming in Strike last night, I went upstairs and once again fell asleep fully clothed.

I have some powerful habits in my life. I fool myself if I believe I am actually in control of more than a small sliver of my personal patterns, states, and responses.

I got my email link to Chuck Anderson's The Six Secrets of Guitar Fingerings and took a printout to lunch. I don't believe this material necessarily to be THE six secrets--there are many "secrets" to this topic, with the GC Primaries addressing another dimension this book misses entirely--but it's good stuff nonetheless, and it could help me a great deal with getting some scalar/solo playing under my fingers in NST. I'll also be applying Succession, Completed Flow, Simultaneous Release, Constant Release, etc. as I go through this. Jamie Andreas' ideas about Light/Firm Finger, No-Tempo Practice, Posing, etc. will also be incorporated, along with all of the useful Alexander Technique ideas.

I'm at the coffeeshop, and in a moment, it's time to go home for guitar practice. I've realized I need to be more diligent with making notes about what I'm practicing.

I also need to be less shy about marking up my tablature printouts with notes about fingering and so on.

On the bright side, I'm developing some groovy calluses on the left hand. The pinky especially is firming up nicely.

I think for a while after this, I'm just going to post now and then when I feel the need to do so. After a few weeks, I will probably also look back over these entries and see if anything strikes me as worthy of further comment.

Later.