| I have been using this for not just country bass practice, I just like the sound of the steel guitar on it.
Lately I have been trying to work on my triads and arpeggios as well as really trying to focus on my rhythm.
For the last while majority of the practice I have been doing over it is just straight timing, I made a few sheets of different rythms ranging from 1 bar to 4 bars and will go through it practicing each one for a few minutes each.
Examples, all quarter notes, all 1/8th notes, 1/4 then 6 1/8th notes, etc, etc, I will start adding quarter rests and 1/8th rests over time. I really need to work on my timing and different rythms so I have been spending a lot of time on this part playing just the roots along with it.
Then I usually start doing straight root-fifths as half notes, then as quarter notes, then just on the 1 and 3 beat, then just on the 2 and 4 beat and whatever various rythms using only root and fifth.
Then more or less the same thing using root-3rd-fifth.
I have been trying to write out the patterns before hand to make sure I play them exactly each time, then I will just improv lines over it using root-3rd-fifth.
Once I am a lot more comfortable with that I plan on starting to do the same thing with the 7th chords (which I am horrible with and really need to learn).
I will try making a few more tracks of the same progression in different keys soon.
As well if anyone has other ideas than what I listed above for my practice routine I would love to hear them. |