My Practice Videos of 2024

Wont Back Down- New Bassline Creation

Using this song to create a new bassline-- this is ONLY an exercise.

This gave me some insight about learning a song by ear, using the Nashville Numbering System, listening to the drums to create a melody of some sort!
December 27, 2024

1st inversion blindfolder

I am practicing my triads in different inversions, and I decided to see if I could hear and feel my way around the neck to find my 1inversion triads blindfolded!
Ya, give me ahcllenge any day!
Nov 24, 2024

Approach notes, triadic patterns

Using this song, Sitting on the Dock ,to explore different approach notes, rhythmic patterns, using the thirds instead of the root, and generally understanding what I can do in my own songs.
December 23 2024

Scales, Riffs and Embellishments

Part of my practice is to play fast, or to push myself. Others is to say intervals while playing a scale, then just playing a riff is fun too!
October 28 2024

Folk Etudes

Using rhythm, learning how to read, playing with the open strings, and just a general feel for reading and playing folky stuff. 3:40 long.
November 17 2024

My 2 audition songs

Here's me playing Misty and Sunny Afternoon. I'm playing as if I'm in front of 3 experienced musicians, and one of them is my lecturer (who happens to be the Music Director.  October 12, 2024

Eiks! 

Chat GPT - useful for analysing a song?

I’m taking a university course called Musicianship and Harmony. We are taught music theory way beyond my pay grade… but I’m there stretching my brain and can hear the synapsis clash with each other  :)

This link to my video is below.  I have documented my journey into rabbit holes. Thinking that I was smart and using ChatGPT to help me solve some issues with analysing a 4 part harmony.. I wanted to let people know that it’s okay to use their brain and avoid rabbit holes!

You don’t need to read music or understand too much theory to watch… it’s more to do with the crossroads, and the breadcrumbs that I found along the way. It’s entertaining but a lot of work for something that should have taken a couple of hours!
September 28 2024

So What- jazz tune

Jazz! Modal - 2 chords
How hard can it be?

I played this song in 2021 for part of my community jazz course. I was green and didn't really know how to play it.

Jim Stinnett has 2 videos and I watched them on repeat, on slow & repeat...

I was supposed to upload two other videos but it never came to be!  
August 11, 2024

Lean on Me and scale practice

Lean on Me by Billy Withers is in C major, and it gives you a good reason to learn your scales as this is what the song does. 

The video is Lean on Me and how to practice my G scale- up the neck, down the neck, and scale degrees.
July 26 2024

Learning simple songs by ear

Little snippets of how I started to learn songs by ear.
There is a lot of videos that got cut because it took me so long to figure out. It's a recipe that is good for ear training, but it's so very frustrating!
June 29 2024

There's a gap between the top video and the ones on the bottom because I was concentrating on the 20 week Cohort 

Let's Get it Started
by The Black Peas

What a great groove that uses roots and fifths. It's interesting to learn this song my ear. You start to ear octave, and fifths (or you should at this stage, for me)). I can't get this song out of my head!
February 17 2024

Sharing my learning with the Circle of Fifths

Sometimes it takes a little while to figure out music, and this is one of those moments!

February 24 2024

Off Beats using Led Leppelin's rhythm

Listening to the off beat, using a track who's music has off-beats (Led Zeppelin), then going to the pentatonic box, and seeing how many different types of basslines that I can come up with.
January 20 2024

Dominant 7th chord practice

What I learned about how to use rhythm in a scale practice.  I made it more difficult that it really is!
January 16 2024

White RabbiT

Let's start this year with a performance. January 2 2024! We were amongst friends and it was fun to have practiced this, around 3, 4 times and get it out there! It's still a bit rough, but we'll perfect it next time!