Workout Wed 10/12

Warm Up - 16 - low advanced (64 reps)

Co-ordination - 12 - high intermediate (17 reps)

Ear Training - 36 - low intermediate (15 reps)

Guitar used - Mexican Strat

Notes:
Okish session. Warm ups at 160BPM. Kept it there for WU16. Dropped back to 130BPM for C012 and back again to 120BPM for ET36. Feels like a bit of a comedown when you drop the speed for each exercise, especially when it takes ages to get the exercise anything approaching right. Hmph!

Workout Tue 9/12

Warm Up - 12 - high intermediate (50 reps)

Co-ordination - 22 - intermediate (21 reps)

Ear Training - 12 - intermediate (18 reps)

Guitar used - Mexican Strat

Notes:
Slight comedown after last night. Warmed up with chromatic exercises at first, fifth and tenth frets, winding the metronome up as high as 160BPM. Took it back to 140BPM for WU12, then down to 120BPM for CO22 then finally down to 100BPM for ET12. Just missed advanced on warm up, but merely steady after last night. Did manage to stay with alternate picking all through though. Seems to be easier to stay alternate on the faster exercises-as I slow down I seem to fall out of the rhythm and it takes a couple of beats to get back into it again.

Workout Mon 8/12

Warm Up - 36 - low advanced (56 reps)

Co-ordination - 25 - high intermediate (11 reps)

Ear Training - 37 - intermediate (11 reps)

Guitar used - Mexican Strat

Notes:
Good range of exercises tonight. Warmed up with chromatic exercises at 1st, 5th and 10th frets, pushing the metronome to 140BPM. Backed off to 120BPM for WU36 to get an "advanced" rating, tried again at 140 and got more failures but a better workout. CO25 involved triplet picking a 12 note pattern at 100BPM - fun ! Triplet counting I could never get right, so it was a good idea to back the metronome off and have it count the triplets - play to the click and you're ok :) ET37 was an old friend tried at 120BPM - went ok, no major train wrecks. All in all, a good set of exercises. Oh, and stayed resolutely with alternate picking for all exercises too, even under pressure at 140 - a first !

PS. Last did ET37 on Sun 30/11 - got an additional 2 successful reps tonight - given that it's a 28 note pattern, an additional 56 "counting" notes in the 2 minute span isn't *too* shabby :)

Workout Sun 7/12

Warm Up - 23 - intermediate (52 reps)

Co-ordination - 15 - low intermediate (18 reps)

Ear Training - 30 - low advanced (34 reps)

Guitar used - Mexican Strat

Notes:
Warmed up with chromatic exercises at first & fifth frets @ 120BPM. Kept metronome there for WU23, but dropped back to 110BPM for CO15 and ET30. Was enough to put me in advanced for ET30. However, kept to alternate picking for warm ups and first two workouts, but fell back to sweep for ET30, so that advanced doesn't really count !

Workout Sat 6/12

Warm Up - 32 - solid intermediate (39 reps)

Co-ordination - 18 - solid intermediate (23 reps)

Ear Training - 35 - intermediate (18 reps)

Guitar used - Mexican Strat

Notes:
Warmed up with some chromatic exercises from the web at 110BPM. and kept the metronome there until ET 35. Pinkie v cold, refused to warm up properly but decent performance overall I think. Kept with alternate picking, again until ET 35 which was sweep picking manna. Darn !

Workouts Tue 2/12 - Fri 5/12

Dreadful lapse while trying to get broadband sorted out - backsliding already ! No defined workouts per se, but spent some time with Co-ord ex 23, which was a nightmare on wheels when I first tried it, but which is becoming more do-able with practice. Also found some good chromatic exercises on a website, so they might be getting an airing soon too.

Workout Mon 1/12

Warm Up - 37 - intermediate (19 reps)

Co-ordination - 29 - advanced (34 reps)

Ear Training -31 - low intermediate (19 reps)

Guitar used - Mexican Strat

Notes:
Reasonably straightforward tonight. Surprisingly high count on Co-ord 29, and Ear Training 31 is deceptively hard. Stuck with alternate picking except for ET31, which was almost designed for sweep picking.