Workout Mon 22/12

Warm Up - 23 - intermediate (68 reps)

Co-ordination - 14 - intermediate (16 reps)

Ear Training - 13 - advanced (31 reps)

Guitar used - Mexican Strat

Notes:
Still lurgied. Managed through the session though. Tried setting the metronome to speeds that would get advanced rating, but number of duff reps on the first two exercises stopped that idea. Just managed advanced in ET13, at the expense of massive cramp in my pinkie! Yow! I suppose it's exactly the sort of exercise my left hand needs, though...

Workout Sun 21/12

Warm Up - 21 - advanced (70 reps)

Co-ordination - 16 - intermediate (40 reps)

Ear Training - 25 - intermediate (24 reps)

Guitar used - Roland G-202

Notes:
Still down with the lurgy a bit, so another rather disjointed session, not helped by using a different guitar I suppose. CO16 was a new one which presented a fair few clams - even half of the duff reps done properly could have made that advanced, and despite a valiant effort at ET25 at 140BPM, I had to back off to 130BPM to make any worthwhile headway with it.

Workout Sat 20/12

Warm Up - 9 - intermediate (76 reps)

Co-ordination - 24 - intermediate (29 reps)

Ear Training - 12 - advanced (31 reps)

Guitar used - US Strat Plus

Notes:
Hmmm... not *too* bad, but not brilliant either. I'm coming down with a bit of a cold which is slightly distracting but not too bad - but I'll still blame that for only just getting advanced on ET12 and, despite going for it at an unrealistic BPM count on WU9, still only getting intermediate !

Workout Fri 19/12

Warm Up - 25 - intermediate (73 reps)

Co-ordination - 26 - intermediate (20 reps)

Ear Training -30-intermediate (20 reps)

Guitar used - Mexican Strat

Notes:
Not really at the races tonight. Being one rep away from advanced on CO26 was pretty much indicative of the evening's performance. Note the woeful attenpt at ET30 compared to 7/12 - 14 fewer successful reps - oh well, at least this time I was trying to stick to alternate picking...

No Workout Thu 18/12

No workout tonight - office Christmas meal instead. Such a slacker !!

Workout Wed 17/12

Warm Up - 35 - advanced (72 reps)

Co-ordination - 30 - advanced (45 reps)

Ear Training - 24 - intermediate (28 reps)

Guitar used - Mexican Strat

Notes:
Quickie session tonight - abbreviated warm up then straight in to the exercises. Progress continues to be made, although there was the occasional slip into sweep picking in CO30. Rather less than would have previously been the case, so some improvement. All in all, quite solid after the last few days. Thought I had really outdone myself on ET24 until I remembered that I don't double count the beats when I'm in 5s - so 265BPM really is 265 notes, not 530 ! (Note - 4 more reps since I last attempted ET24 last Saturday.)

Workout Tue 16/12

Warm Up - 9 - advanced (78 reps)

Co-ordination - 32 - advanced (28 reps)

Ear Training - 36 - advanced (32 reps)

Guitar used - US Strat Plus

Notes:
Hmmm ... Feel slightly fraudulent tonight, for two reasons. First, decided not to do the warm up exercise that came out first (another of those horrible major 7th arpeggio things). Then, on ET36, went for a "second lap" - took so long to get into the pattern that when the two minute bell went I kept going and counted the second lap. On the upside, I played the Strat Plus for the first time in the workout, and it went ok. Also, stuck with alternate picking in CO32, which would previously have been sweep picking all the way, and still knocked out an advanced time ! (Note - last attempted this exercise on 29/11, relapsed into sweep picking and only managed 25 reps - improvement ? wot improvement ?? Next stop, basic competence... mwahahahaha...)

Oh, and metronome was set to 160BPM for WU9, and 120BPM for CO32 and ET36.