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Originally Posted by jmitchell42
big picture goals are good too as long as they are specific. that way you can break it down into steps.
i wish that as well.
So my big picture goals are:
1) Get rock solid at rhythm guitar. (Was always kind of sloppy back in the day.)
2) Learn all the pentatonic/blues positions and get more fluent at playing between the positions.
3) Get comfortable improvising in more keys than Em and Am.
4) Start working more chord tone stuff into my solos (by playing "good" notes through the chord changes with the pentatonic scales and also working in arpeggios).
5) Learn some soul and funk classics/chops.
6) Develop my ear and transposing skills.
7) Learn the fretboard notes.
8) Figure out how to really use effects (particularly delay) and build my own tone.
9) Theory stuff (don't know enough to even understand what I need to know but I know I want to learn).
Need to break this stuff up into bite size chunks with shorter term more specific goals I guess. Making tons of progress so far though! Figured out the opening solo to Alice Cooper's "Caught in a Dream" on one listen today. It's easy, stays in one position, and is really easy to hear in the mix -- but still that's never happened to me before!