Projects

Must … not … let … this … go! I haven’t been working on learning the fretboard for months. Probably gone backward as a result. 

Learning the names of the modes (why are they sometimes called the church modes?). So weird. Making a smart flashcard deck. DPLMAL is a mnemonic.

Again, weird that I haven’t learned this by now. So, here we go. First I want to learn the Pentatonic Scales all over the neck.

I started learning the notes on the guitar fretboard. Harder than I thought! I have the basics down but I have to keep drilling. I looked around for ideas on how best to learn – there are many ideas on how to do this. I tried making smart cards, which I think may be beneficial, but I ’m not certain I know which method is ultimately the best.

I’ve been playing guitar more or less continuously for about 15 years. Amazingly and ashamedly, I haven’t bothered to learn the notes on the guitar fretboard. The whole fretboard. That ends this week.

I’ve been avoiding this. I have had a love-hate relationship with the guitar for years. I’ve been playing it because it is easy and there is something undeniably beguiling about the instrument. But everyone plays guitar and it is so difficult to distinguish yourself among the crowd.

Last Fall, as I was closing down the garden irrigation for the Winter, the valve broke (plastic!). Luckily it broke in the off position. I held out hope I’d be able to clamp onto some part of the old valve with a pair of vice grips and turn it back on. But looking at it closely: nope. It was going to be a project. I started digging.

Taking a little hiatus from weekly projects for a bit. I think limiting each project to one week is too confining for my taste. So, they will be back but with a change. I’ll probably just call them Projects.

Barney lends a hand! New framing and some sheathing My entry was in rough shape. Barney has been telling me he would stop by to give me a hand. He did last week and we decided that working on the entry would be a good project. We quickly decided to peel off a layer to see what was going on underneath. Before you know it, the whole thing was demolished.