new music

Luciano Cilio, Italian songwriter, only made one album, which is a shame. Classical guitar with piano and strings. Amazing ambience/classical music. Very inspirational

John Mclaughlin. I never paid attention to him much for whatever reason. Mahavishnu orchestra is one of the best groups ever. Im still learning about these artists so now much will be said in this post

Im kinda re-finding all the jazz thats on my computer or mp3 player and its wonderful.

My current obsession is Bitches Brew by Miles Davis. Words can not express what that album is like.

Ive moved so far away from death metal at this point. So much of it is so repititious and not ground breaking enough.

jam session/band

had a great jam session with my brother on cello and his friend josh on guitar. Josh knows a ton of shit about theory that i dont. Im happy i finally found someone who can school me with knowledge. I cant wait to learn more. Jamming was very interesting and different. I never really improv jammejd with three people so it was really cool. We connected really well i liked a lot of what we had played. So now, the band has officially started. This is my new motivation to practice.

Im getting much more serious with Anthromorphic. Going to be practicing the songs for hours, since they are that hard. I really want to get serious about it.

thats all for now...the fire has been rekindled

STARTING FRESH

its been a bumpy road. Many periods of motivation and demotivation. Ive learned a lot about stress and how it effects the body and am currently learning about how nutrition will help lower stress, thus helping my practice better. I have a lot of shit to update.

signs of stress

heavy breathing
lack of energy/ being fatigued
not wanting to be productive
thinking negatively
giving pissed off responses
cheating on my diet



im really stressed right now. I suck at handling stress.

practice log

practice log

nov 11 2008 4 hours

nov 12 2008
230-330
740 - 840
35 min of physical playing
955 - 1023
20 minutes of physical playing

The rest of the time i was resting my muscles...hmm more about this later

Nothing to update for a while

I didnt really have anything to say, which is kinda bad. Now i do. I randomly got that desire i once had to practice. It feels fucking great. A lot of things have interfered with me wanting to practice, and it comes down to one thing...STRESS. The biggest forms of stress are my parents, weight lifting, and work. On top of that, when im stressed i try to do things that are easy so i can relax. I relax to get rid of stress. I did too much of that. Today i dont have work, and I think it is impacting my day a whole lot. Also by just relaxing and not focusing on something like guitar it makes me even more stressed out because i need to practice. Ive played for a good 2 hours now, and my hands are starting to get tired...boooo. Im gonna try to get up to 4. I want to keep this up. I feel like i will start improving like crazy once again.

that was a quick break

So i did my best not to think about guitar. Then i was so bored and felt so empty. I went for yet another walk just to get shit off my mind. Came home and got on my guitar. It was a cool feeling. Then after an hour or two my fingertips started hurting. Now im aching to play again