Soloing Studies - Jesse James

Soloing Studies - Jesse James

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Day 1 - The Musical Alphabet

  • The Musical Alphabet

Day 2 - Chord Alphabet

  • The Chord Alphabet

Day 3 - The Major Scale

  • The Major Scale - Construction & Conceptualization

Day 4 - Movable Chord Shapes

  • Movable Chord Shapes

Day 5 - Partial Chords & Chord Clusters

  • Day 5 - Movable Chords (cont.)

Day 6 - Review

  • Review Notes & Assignments

Day 8 - Drop Thumbing

  • Drop Thumb - Explanation & Exercises

Day 9 - Putting It All Together

  • Drop Thumb Studies Continued - Partial Chords

Day 10 - Chord Progressions & Keys

  • Explanation, Terminology, and Examples

Day 11 - Pentatonic Scale

  • Explanation & Exercises

Day 12 - Back Up Strategies

  • Part 1: Basic Approach

Day 13 - Review

  • Week 2 in Review

Day 14 - Organizing Practice Time

  • Tips & Techniques for Optimization

Day 15 - Expanded Pentatonics

  • Vertical & Two Octave Scales
  • Two Octave Pentatonic Etude

Day 16- Instrumental Break

  • Soloing Studies - Jesse James

Day 17 - Alternate String Pull Offs & Phantom Strokes

  • Alternate String Pull Offs
  • Phantom Strokes

Day 18 - Repertoire & Tool Building

  • New Tunes + New Tuning

Day 19 - Waltz Time

  • Waltz Time Strategies - Technique & Repertoire

Day 20 - Instrumental Break Studies Continued

  • Down in the Willow Garden Solo Study

Day 21 - Practice Optimization Continued

  • Five Times & Tortoise Techniques

Day 22 - Right Hand Technique Study

  • Back Thumbing

Day 23 - Repertoire Building & Application

  • Sugar in the Gourd
  • Sugar in the Gourd - Played Slowly

Day 24 - Chord Theory

  • Explained & Applied

Day 25 - Repertoire & Application

  • Answer Key
  • Open C Tune Study - Cold Snap

Day 26 - Expanded Back Up Techniques

  • Whamming

Day 27 - Advanced Soloing Studies

  • Hand Me Down my Walking Cane

Day 28 - Melodic Clawhammer Studies

  • Liberty - Melodic Study
  • Liberty - Rhythmic Study

Day 29 - Bending

  • Explanation & Demonstration

Day 30 - Bending Continued

  • Tune Study - Pretty Polly - Integrating Bends
  • Tune Study - John Henry

Day 31 - Follow Up

  • Now What?