http://lamkins-guitar.com/music/article/2013-goals

David Lamkins picked up his first guitar a long time ago. As best he can recall the year was 1967: the year of the Summer of Love. Four decades later David has conjured up an amalgam of folk, rock and jazz solo guitar music for the occasional intimate Portland audience.

location: Portland, OR USA

2013 Musical Resolutions

Looking at the filesystem for my web site, I realize that I haven't posted any musical goals for a few years. That hasn't been due to lack of objectives, but rather because the existing goals (towards which I have made steady and consistent progress) were more of the same.

This year, I'm taking a somewhat different tack focussed on behaviors rather than outcomes:

Improve mechanics
1. play standing
2. practice clean
  1. don't hide sloppy playing behind reverb
  2. fret clean
  3. practice with metronome
Improve vocabulary
1. slow down: name notes, intervals, scale degrees and chords
2. rhythmic variations
Visit the bookshelf
Keep a journal

January 16 2013 08:25:12 GMT