What are you practicing today?

[JohnW63]

Solsbury Hill and the chords to this backing track, because my teacher wanted me to learn new chords shapes.

 

[Rocky]

Do you ever play B7 by barring it? I've always found it easier and faster to play it that way rather than the four-finger version in the first and second frets.
RBSinTo

It just depends which octave you want your seventh to appear. Do you want it down low like chili powder, or up high like a fresh jalepeno?

 

[LeFinPepere]

So many B7 shapes, so little time!
I like the very-low one on the 3 low strings at the nut.
I am currently tinkering with Stone Free , the original version. Harmonics.Hendrix chords.Palm mute. That rhythmic pattern. I try to look at it in depth, and find how I had it so wrong for 40 years.
I figure the solo is A flat , then A7/9 or something like that... It is out of this world, with the crazy open strings trick. Joyful, agressive,all the stuffs crammed in 25 seconds!! Hendrix, man!The first song he ever penned! (And I'm not even trying to emulate his sound !)
J.J Cale is on the workbench as well, i.e the overdriven bends in Cocaine, which NOBODY ever tries to play - (N°1 jam-sabotaged song award goes to: " Cocaine"!!) and the unique, effortless flow of his solos in Cajun Moon and The Breeze...When I 'm finished with all that,I fool around some Dickey Betts licks. I really would like to nail how these guys thought their stuff, the logic in it...

 

[beecee]

Incubus Drive. The Em to Em9 is killing me!

 

[dreadnut]

thinking about it, I play B7 both ways depending on the song.

 

[crank]

Been working on adding color and variations to Hesitation Blues and Death Don't Have No Mercy. Along with different ways to start/intro Friend Of the Devil and China Cat Sunflower. And we saw Tab Benoit last week so been working on screaming blues leads.

 

[GGJaguar]

Superstar. My wife is an alto so she can sing the entire Carpenters songbook.

 

[fronobulax]

walking bass lines

Specifically trying to do something besides (almost) always start on the root and (almost) always ascend from there.

 

[Bill Ashton]

Not practicing with guitar in hand, but in my head trying to work out a usable arrangement of "Poor Boy's Delight" as a more-than-strumming solo piece. There are so many little necessary hooks and nuances...done by other instruments...I find it, um "challenging." A simple banjo or mando riff doesn't translate easily to guitar.

 

[Roland]

Freshening up on Christmas songs.

 

[Boneman]

Superstar. My wife is an alto so she can sing the entire Carpenters songbook.

Probably my favorite Carpenters song, and I just love Karen’s voice, my favorite female vocalist, so pure and clean.

 

[Boneman]

Incubus Drive. The Em to Em9 is killing me!

Oh man, yea, that’s another, I hear that, those are tricky to nail cleanly. I find my fingers still falling into place as I’m starting to pluck the A string on that first chord change. For those not in the know:

 

[mad dog]

Several Freddy King instrumentals. And a few by Albert Collins.

 

[Elderguilder]

Still trying to make smooth JS Bach's BWV508 Be Thou With Me from the Anna Magdalena Notebook (the simple classical guiter version). That and 7 other pieces just so I don't forget, which is way too easy for me to do. Forget, that is!

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Currently working on Angi (or Anji) by Davy Graham, Big Love by Fleetwood Mac and I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday by Roy wood and Wizzard.

 

[JohnW63]

If your working on the acoustic version of Big Love, you are definitely a number of power-up levels beyond me.

 

[RBSinTo]

Today I'm practicing nothing in particular, but just fooling around with this or that.
Yesterday I practiced Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" a number of times, as I've been doing for the last few weeks to be prepared for my first recital last night.
There were about 30 of us who performed, most accompanied by our wonderful teacher, Steve Frise, in front of an audience of parents, spouses and friends.
I was very nervous when I walked up to the stage, and feared that my mind would go blank, but as Steve told me during our lesson last week, getting up there is the hardest part, and once we began to play, I became calm and focused and managed not to embarrass either me or my teacher. The audience seemed to enjoy our song, although no record contract was forthcoming.
Still, it was a fun experience, and I'm eager to do it again at the next recital.
RBSinTo

 

[Brick]

Right now some Mississippi John Hurt stuff -- need to pivot into some holiday tunes here pretty quick.

 

[West R Lee]

Working on a couple of originals in Open D. To me Open D is simply mesmerizing.........just a beautiful tuning.

West

 

[schoolie]

"Sligo River Blues" John Fahey. Such a beautiful song!