So I grew up with comics in the newspaper. “Calvin & Hobbes” will always have a special place in my heart
So think of this as a “comic short” – it’s just something I’ve put together, with no thought or any reason at all
Except to jot things down and create a notebook place, on top of my weekly journal,
Of something that is IMPORTANT to ME
I don’t want to lose to chemo-brain, and I think it’s also going to give a level of substance to whoever is crazy enough to read badgersbeats.com
So for you, my reader
as Samuel Clemens wrote once, far more eloquently than I ever can
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.”
It all started with a rather salty, “who the foooook is ThIs GuY?!?!”
in Brandon D’Eon, and his absolutely ridiculous and hilarious to me way of getting his point across
Wrong way VS right way to play scales
Level of inappropriateness that I had to like and subscribe. For being Canadian’ eh?!? He ain’t that bad! lol (my Dad is Canadian btw, and I love hockey,so ye be warned again)
Which got me to wanting something to read and work with, as a book
Which got me to THIS
Is very good, as I’ve said previously in other articles, mainly within my GRIND – journal thus far.
Once I’m actually through the book, and I can sit down and actually TRY and GET through the book once, in 13 weeks
I’ll have a more in-depth review of the book then
On piano, I can do the entire book in an afternoon, and I can tell it’s going to make me EARN it, and it’s going to be a very good book going forward
Just right now, I’m not exactly an “intermediate” guitarist, and I have other, unfortunately, IRL things preventing me from really getting on it, at this moment.
I’m planning on hopefully the end of the summer-
Chris Brook’s book, my beautiful JIVAjr, and my positive grid amp and JEEP,
And that’s IT. Camping, for a 13 week hiatus – away from the HEAT of August/September – I’m thinking Yellowstone
Be jelly
But as stated elsewhere –
Chris Brooks’ Chapter 1’s techniques learned are very similar to this video
Single String Picking Etude – Guitar Alchemy no. 1 – “The Shifter” – Chris Brooks
I’m not even at 90 bpm on triplets yet. So what I like about what Joe Macedo says within this video is:
SPEED building PROGRAM! | Guitar Lesson
is that we all go at our own pace. And like I thought, after spending 3 months working Val diligent tirades into almost sleeping with the thing
I’m not going on to chapter 2 after only one week. Instead I’m focusing on Chapter 1, along with Joe Macedo’s video above. Until I get them up to a relatively competent and confident level. Aka about 120 bpm ish – depending on the technique.
I’m not sure about sextuplets at 120 bpm…
So depending on how I feel, and more importantly when that camping trip STARTS
It’s going to be EPIC
I also created a playlist of Chris Brooks, Joe Macedo, the guys I follow in Jazz specifically – Jens Larsen and Nathan Borton – and the ever loud, rambunctious and very politically incorrect so my veteran ass loves him – Brandon D’Eon – they all have EPIC videos on techniques, patterns, and runs to work on
Hard, Yet Effective Way To Learn The fretboard
which, as a wanna-be Jazz Musician – everything is words, and phrases to develop into a “Jazz Language” which I’ll write a much more in-depth, and yes, Music Theory – Oh No!!!! – based article soon ™***
but here is that YouTube Playlist if you want to try some of these yourself. They’ve all been epic fun working with my guitar playing, ever present and focused on my TONE
YouTube guitar shred PLAYLIST – CLICK HERE!
And I’ll also put Brandon D’Eon’s video again, because it’s what started all this –
Wrong way VS right way to play scales
And like me, he’s “one of those friends that needs a warning label” (kinda surprised this still happens, all these years later, yet I’m known as a “grumpy badger” for a reason and earned that nickname aptly
Just always remember:
Wisdom For Learning Guitar #shorts