It was an odd weekend… towards the end of last weekend I get a text from my landlady saying that she was no longer going to pay for a TV licence, so I guess that means no more Law & Order (original series of course) reruns at lunchtime…
Then the internet went down, with a problem occuring with the fibre optic cable that comes from the street. An engineer couldn’t come out until Monday to fix it, so for the last weekend there was no internet and no TV…
After the last article on how to measure improvements in your guitar practice a reader emailed with the following question on improving their practice:
Hi Sam ,I’m learning a fingerstyle piece called struttin rag by stefan grossman. I’m struggling to even slightly increase the tempo a few beats to get a tiny section at the same speed as the rest of the piece which i can play no bother.It needs this tempo to bring about a lively performance.
A concept that we explored in How to Practice Guitar was making small improvements each week. By making a 1% improvement each week, we know for a mathetmical fact that as long as we’re consistent with our guitar practice, eventually we will reach our goals, whatever they may be.
It’s an important, and I think, very motivating concept.
It’s something that we’ve discussed several times in various posts on this blog.