Workout Mon 12/1

Warm Up - 16 - advanced (75 reps)

Co-ordination - 10 - advanced (just) (21 reps)

Ear Training - 10 - intermediate (20 reps)

Guitar used - Mexican Strat

Notes:
Done over two nights ! Still trying to ease ny way back into a regular schedule. Took ages to get to grips with ET10, but got there in the end - eventually :(

Workout Mon 5/1

Warm Up - 37 - intermediate (53 reps)

Co-ordination - 9 - intermediate (30 rcps)

Ear Training - 2 - intermediate (15 reps)

Guitar used - Mexican Strat

Notes:
Very cold hands tonight - couldn't get them to warm up at all. Most annoying. Tried ET2 again, slightly faster with more duff reps, but also two more good reps. Too cold to get my hands to do much more tonight, I think!

Workout Sun 4/1

Warm Up - 25 - advanced (89 reps)

Co-ordination - 24 - intermediate (41 reps)

Ear Training - 2 - intermediate (13 reps)

Guitar used - US Strat Plus

Notes:
Back in harness! A solid, if not terribly overwhelming return, although after nearly two weeks off that's to be expected. ET2 was an interesting new exercise which hopefully will be tried again soon, complete with its awkward position change.

Notes for 23/12 - 3/1

During the holiday period, when I'd hoped to spend some time learning some new pieces as well as spending a bit more time practicing, between the lurgy and what felt like a trapped nerve in my right elbow curtailed any serious practice. Still managed a few runs through exercises most days, but nothing as structured as a workout, sadly. Seem to be past the most irritating niggles from the elbow, so that's all good, thankfully. However, "Blood on the Rooftops" and "Horizons" survive unmolested for a little while longer !

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...