This past week was a brilliant week for this project. I was able to actually sit down and perfect the new and old parts of the solo that I needed work on. I was able to finish my schoolwork for the following day the previous evening, just as I had planned. For this past week, I kind of went back on what I said about "Quantity over quality". I just focused on adding a little bit of new stuff and then perfecting everything that needed touching up as well as the new stuff that was added. I really think doing that was a good use of my time. It won't be something I do every week, just here and there.
I pretty much just picked up where I left off the week before last. I found out that if I take breaks frequently while playing, I don't get as discouraged and usually practice longer. So, I've started taking breaks every ten minutes while I practice and it's been working pretty well for me. If I want a break from the new stuff, I usually just play through all of what I know up to that part in the song. If I have trouble anywhere, I stop and go through it until it is near perfect. There still are some rough spots in that in between part I was talking about a couple weeks ago, but that should be fine with a little work. The stuff that I learned was around that part that was up on the fretboard I mentioned last week. I pretty much perfected the bends that begin it. After the bends there's something I guess you could call a "turn around" where its just a little lick that carries over into the next section. It is played relatively fast, like most things Van Halen, and there were some notes that repeated at different times. It was difficult to memorize but once I did I perfected it in no time. The parts after that were a little hazy though. When a song is played quickly, learning it is pretty difficult because I have trouble putting it all together to make it sound like the recording. I did learn the base of it and I plan to do more work on it this afternoon. All in all, this was a good week for me, and I'm hoping I can be more responsible like this in the following weeks.
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