Lesson 33 Tuesday 27th August 2013

I had been away on holiday for a week so could not have my weekly lesson the week before and had not been able to practice really. I did toy with the idea of taking my guitar with me on holiday but there would be no room to store it and in reality I would not have the time to practice.

We started off Practising the Oasis Riff "I'm Outta Time".

It took me awhile to get myself back into the swing of this riff. My main problem was that the second bend you could hear the note bending back. We tried playing along with the song and I could hear that I need to be more swift and crisper. It was not too far off though which was pleasing to hear.

We next went onto look at the Wet Wet Wet song "Love Is All Around".

I started with the capo 3 version. It took me a few attempts to get the rhythm correct again and the first few attempts the transition from one chord to another had no fluency at all. I then practised just going from G to A minor at first to get the correct sound then moved on by adding in the next part until I had all four. It was not perfect but at times there was some notes that sounded like the tune starting to struggle out.

Then I had a go at the capo 1 version. This was much harder as the bar chord B minor sort of stops me in my tracks.

I focused on trying to get this chord sounding good and a few times I managed it with all the strings that need to be heard ringing out. I did this a few times and tried to hold the hands there and will them into remembering how it felt.

For the last part we had a look at Amps. It was my birthday coming up and I was asking for money so I could get an amp to go with my electric guitar.

After a bit of a search we closed it down to two.

The Marshall MG15CFR  which is an 15 watts amp with reverb.

Or The Marshall MG15CFX which again is a 15 watt with reverb but with the chance to have a footcontrol which you can program in different sounds.

They are not massive amps but I am just learning at home and I am sure this will be enough to upset the wildlife near my house anyway. I am not sure which one to go for at the moment. The first one is the cheaper version but the second has much more functionality. I have money for both ut my worry is that the second one maybe to much stuff on it to learn when I am new to it all.

I will have to sleep on it.