Best day I've ever had musically was today. Miles to go, but I showed up 45 minutes early for my lesson today, a beautiful day sun was shining nobody around but me so I took out my F 20 & started playing in the shade by the side of the building.
Blues progressions, real simple, 4 chords max, I finally got the 9th chords figured out so I can touch em pretty clean & clear & know where they are & it was working pretty darn well. It's taken me weeks to get 9th chords to play clean enough to pass, F20 makes a cool blues sound sliding 9ths around. (T5 does too !!)
Smitty says you fool more people with 9th chords.
Smitty shows up just as I'm getting a good groove & cracks a big grin, "You're gettin it" he says. I do practice & get better at every lesson, not necessarily better at what he taught me the session before but I'm learning from this man & he's getting a charge out watching me do it. Monday's are a good thing & the hour flys by.
Then we spend an hour Jammin & he keeps tellin me, "Stay in the box", "get back in the box" dammit "Pick a box & stay in it". Funny thing I knew this time what he was talking about could see it on the fret board & hear it, well more of it. Today I was catching on pretty darn fast for an old guy with short term memory issues. All these wonderful tones & the vast majority withiin 2 or 3 simple 5 note patterns.
Scale patterns. We've been working on only 2 or 3 scale patterns & we changed keys a couple times ,barre chords, & the patterns & roots are in the same places.
Found a little "Funk" in the bass today, just a little piece, been looking for it for a long time. Wasn't where I was previously strummin.
13 months till I'm 60, things are looking up. A good woman does no hurt.