While I’m on vacation this week I only had one playing goal, to finish learning “Cliffs Of Dover”, which I’m still going to do, but I had a couple ideas pop into my head this morning when I started to work on it. There’s a ton of solos and songs that when I was starting out I’d say to myself “When I grow up I wanna be able to play ________” and lately I’ve been having more fun getting nostalgic with stuff like that than I have been writing/recording, so I think I’m going to make a video series out of it. It can be summed up as “Guy who stopped caring about technical guitar playing 20 years ago decides he wants to learn some technical guitar songs” and I mostly want to document the challenges I have in the process and how I get past them.
”Cliffs” is going to be a work in progress, I need more instant gratification to keep me focused on this so I picked a solo I’ve wanted to learn for decades and have attempted a couple times but gave up almost instantly because I could never get the feel of it, but today I broke past the hurdle point I always gave up at and that’s all I needed. Going in chunks, but when I edit the videos together later on it’ll show how I tackle this stuff then fuck it up relentlessly until I happen to land on it right.
