new year´s resolutions

Helgo · #1 12-12-2011, 06:10 AM

Hi everybody.

So, with 2012 just around the corner I started reflecting on the old year and thinking about the new one...Although I am still a player of very limited abilities, I am proud to say that I improved a lot in 2011. I spent quite some time shedding and it is a very rewarding feeling that it turns out to really improve my playing.

So, I thought I should start a thread where everybody who wants to join, can post their new year´s resolutions. Musical and unmusical and we can revive the thread in december 2012 and see how far we got.

I will still have to think about mine, but I´ll be sure to let you know and I am interested in what your goals are...

For example:

- What songs do you want to learn?

- Do you want to finally overcome your fears of playing live and join in on an open stage session?

- Do you want to make a certain amount of money with playing music in 2012?

- Do you want to record a CD?

- Do you want to get your book published?

- Want to finally get around to living more healthy, quit smoking, doing more sports?

etc...etc...

Cheers,
H.

cosmic gumbo · #2 12-12-2011, 11:57 AM

My resolution is to spend less time on the interweb and more time in the shed. Has anyone ever succeeded at this?

Helgo · #3 12-12-2011, 12:14 PM

Hi cb.

Good resolution. And very testable

I do think people suceeded in that, but then: We don´t know it from them, because they aren´t around here anymore

Cheers,
H.

brad4d8 · #4 12-12-2011, 12:25 PM

New Year's 2009 I resolved to play the guitar every day, even if only for a couple scales. Except for a few days when I only played mandolin (not in my original resolution because I didn't own it at the time), I have succeeded. I figure the mando was a suitable substitute. Before 2011 I resolved to learn more about playing swing rhythms, and have, although still not where I'd like to be. I think this year is going to be a mandolin resolution, I've had it for two years but have only played it 15-20 times. Not sure if there will also be a guitar component as well.
Brad

BigDaddyLoveHandles · #5 12-12-2011, 12:38 PM

Back door resolution: IV-♭VII-I

coolvinny · #6 12-12-2011, 07:28 PM

To transcribe phrases and then work them through every key (and at least 2 'positions' on the guitar), and to be aware of what notes I am playing relative to the underlying chords when doing so. Then the really hard part...to take those and apply them to tunes - first in the shed with a playalong, and then when playing with others.

I already started this last week and after a weekend of running 4-bars of a Charlie Parker solo through just 5 keys (and 2 positions) while always keeping track of the notes relative to the underlying chords, my brain is freakin exhausted.

I should mention that I am going to make this the focus of my practice time, rather than just an add-on my existing practice routine. I'll do the other stuff with whatever time I have left over.

JonnyPac · #7 12-12-2011, 08:22 PM

I really want to feel 100% "rhythmically responsible". No doubt in my timing from basic pulse to sophisticated phrases and accent groupings; the whole bag. No negotiating the beat mid-song or falling back on training-wheel phrases that overtly state the meter.

Helgo · #8 12-15-2011, 04:03 AM

Hi JonnyPac.

I really dig your resolution. Good luck with that!

Here I go:

- I want to have played some gigs with my recently formed souljazz combo.

- I want to become a better "jazz jazz" player as in: I really want to internalize and be abled to play smoothly over Rhythm Changes and I want to have down some bebop vocabulary.

- I want to be healthier and feel better and be better in shape than I am now.

We´ll see how it goes and
I´m excited to hear more of them resolutions!

All the best to you guys,
H.

JazzHifi · #9 12-15-2011, 04:37 AM

ear training and phrasing :-)