Practice Vid

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Chris Cosgrove

2 months ago

Hey Tomo and GW gang:

Been a while since I posted anything but I have been practicing a bunch.
I’ve been working on a few songs:

Crossroads by Cream
Mary Had a Little Lamb by SRV

Very humbling songs, especially the 2nd…so much technique, up strokes, palm muting, slides, hammer ons and pull offs.

A few months ago I couldn’t do any so it is progress for sure, but like Mark Knopfler sang with Dire straits it seems the end game of being able to play clean is “so far away from me”.

Anyhow I hope to post more…hope you are all well!

God bless!

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Tomo Fujita Mod

2 months ago

Thank you Chris for sharing your video!

Yes! Tough solo to play it well. Good job learning those riffs and solo!
In order to play this solo well... a few things you can prepare around this solo.

1) Chord progressions & Bass line.
You can play chord progression with simple chords and you can work on your time feel & use lighter left hand touch.
You can play simple bassline so you can keep in time playing bassline.

2) Left hand thumb position.
You can work on that. Please follow July Challenge for that. Left hand muting. Softer picking, softer left hand touch. And more!

3) Practice chromatic scale 1234 & 1212 so your fingers can move freely without too much pressure.

Please watch this 10 more times and use your note book so you can write some notes on your note book.
Keep body motion with a tempo while you are playing.

Tomo

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Chris Cosgrove

2 months ago

Thank you Tomo! I will apply that feedback.

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Chris Cosgrove

2 months ago

So I did a little research…

For Mary Had a Little Lamb, it’s 12 Bar Blues

E7 | E7 | E7 | E7
A7 | A7 | E7 | E7
B7 | A7 | E7 | E7

So 1 1 1 1 / 4 4 1 1 / 5 4 1 1?

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Chris Cosgrove

2 months ago

Ok, so I see your point on Thumb position from July Challenge, and I will make that adjustment.

Forgive me, what is the 1212, I do understand the 1234 Chromatic exercise and do that to a metronome almost daily.

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John Fiers

2 months ago

Have not heard this one in a long time Chris, key sounds right for SRV. Might be ending in 5415.? . Maybe review the blues progressions in R37 for similar approach.

This is new and explains why no Metronome with chromatics 1234 & 1212 - johno

https://tomovhxtv.vhx.tv/forums/general/75130-how-slow-how-soft-how-to-practice-chromatic-1212

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李jiayang

2 months ago

WOW ! Thank you Chris for sharing , great performance .

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Tomo Fujita Mod

2 months ago

Thank you Jiayang for encouragement!

Chris did a great job!

Tomo

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Chris Cosgrove

2 months ago

Thank you!

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John Fiers

2 months ago

Appreciate you sharing your cover songs Chris. I think you summed it up with Vaughn speed, that is fast tight blues man!! Have you tried slowing it down with a Metronome to lose some of the slop? To me that is what is cool about both those songs, they have the blues. Blues sounds good slow too :) actually it can improve your rhythm to play them in slower time. Imagine that, Stevie playing that song in half the speed with bluesy attitude creating the space. Try it and tighten up those chops a bit. - johno

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Chris Cosgrove

2 months ago

Thank you. Good thoughts! I will try to slow down the tempo to refine the playing.

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Jeffrey Croteau

2 months ago

Nice going Chris! Great work and great song selections. Love the video setup.
White Stratocaster club.

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Chris Cosgrove

2 months ago

Ha video set up lol, that's my den / office...laptop by day on desk behind, piano in front where I record from and guitars around lol. Peloton to right when I'm motivated ha ha ha.