What is your favorite Guitar challenge Day?

[petelanger]

I’m going to be honest, I’m usually not a big fan of Improv day. I don’t hate scales but I do not like a whole bunch of scales that I am being invited to memorize, and my soloing isn’t inspiring myself very much.

Now that I’m 21 months in TAC, I am familiar with some of the patterns. I’m also trying to learn the theory behind everything so that they would begin to make more sense to me. I’m just still not at the point where if I fret somewhere I would have an expectation of the pitch I will get.

I am a fan of Tuesdays, guitar lick day is almost always great. I think my order is:

1. Tues

2. Thurs

3. Mon

4. Fri

5. Wed

This order applies to Neil Young week and most other weeks. Fridays might rank higher or maybe I could put it like this

1. Tues

2. 3-Way tie: Mon, Thurs, Friday

5. Wed

[albert_d]

Tuesday used to be my hardest, but now I enjoy it. But Friday is my favorite.

• This reply was modified 4 weeks, 1 day ago by  albert_d.

[jorgemac]

Friday does take the whole week and combine highlights of the other day’s lessons. If you put the practice time in on the other days it can feel great to feel all of that work pay off.

Wednesdays are OK but I usually goes through the scales a few times then do my own thing and pick from patterns that I enjoy high lighting.

most of my riff based patterns begin above the 5th fret an involve double stops, triplets, slides, hammer on and pull offs and a heck of a lot arpeggio’s. Mark from Dire Straights is the style I would like to acheive someday.

[Skyman911]

For me, it’s Thursday and Friday. I usually spend the most time on those days. I also do scales everyday as a warmup for my fingers, so Wednesdays are sometimes skipped.

[jorgemac]

This is Sunday late morning on the left coast and I just Spent 30 minutes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday’s lessons. I do like the Monday Chords arrangements. Like the 1st and 2nd measures of D end with a modified G notes, too cool.

[Howard U]

Friday. Wednesday is by far my least favorite.

[jorgemac]

Howard, that is interesting. It seems when we have easy Wednesday scales and the song is popular. A lot of us, me included, have positive comments about Wednesdays. Hotel California is one of my favorites , Wonderful tonight also. Ain’t no Sunshine, I love.

But most of us don’t claim Wednesdays as a favorite.

I am enamored with the Monday lesson 2 weeks in a row. It is so easy to embellish on today’s Lesson and I am having fun with it.

Thanks for your comments.

[petelanger]

I really desire to turn this around and make Wednesdays as good or better than the rest of the week. Reading this thread again inspired me and it also jogged my memory so that I recalled having some arrows in my quiver that ought to help.

1. Getting more familiar with the scales is a start and that’s naturally going to happen the more often they come around.

2. Get back into the ear training that I started in February and for some reason put on the shelf. Perfect pitch is very rare but most anyone can learn relative pitch. I need to keep developing that muscle.

3. A good solo is just as much about good rhythm as it is about pleasing notes. I need to work on applying rhythmic patterns when I’m doing improv.

That’s all I’ve got right now.

[jorgemac]

Just did today’s improv. Started with the backing tract that was very simple and easy to pick up do to all of the work we have done with bass note lead in. Then did scale and had much more fun and success with the chord arpeggios as usual as they were much easier to match with backing track.