A nice simple rhythm riff that’s instantly recognisable.
Terrible, but that’s practice. I’ve not been very inspired at the moment due to other things clouding my mind, so struggling to get anything cohesive practice wise.
Work has had me swamped, hence no practice for several days, and my fingers are feeling it today: Slow to get going and sore afterwards.
Embarrassingly I forget the name of this piece, and its been an age since I knowingly listened to it, but this is me trying to play it from my memory of having heard it as part of training my ear
Very sloppy, but better than it was when I started ten minutes previously :)
Normally in a I-IV-V chord progression I’d play the same minor pentatonic scale over all three chords. Here I’m confusing myself by trying to play the right arpeggio scale for the current chord.
Somewhere between practicing funk strumming and jazz chords I found this.
I was feeling very uninspired again today, when at the end this song came to me and I put down the electric and played this, which I think is under appreciated in R.E.M.’s back catalogue. Simple chords but a beautiful song.
Trying or some new chord progressions at the moment and then wiring or which scales/arpeggios work well over them.
Sorry the audio is so quiet - must have knocked the level on my preamp and you can’t tweak that readily on the phone alas.
After a long day yesterday feeling a bit run down and my heart wasn’t really in it, but I managed half an hour still. Most of what I practiced was funk strumming with wah, but the audio was terrible due some reason (beyond just my playing) and so you get this instead.
Having a stab at the intro now. I suspect I’ll be learning snippets of this song for the next decade given how long it is - my phone now knows to auto suggest the entire sing artist name now 😂
I had only 5 minutes spare this morning before I needed to head to work, so I did this quick play with the central riff from a song my friend Adam wrote when we were back at university. I still really like this song.