This past week has really been something! It is amazing what even a little time with a teacher can do! Before I was merely understanding what my theory and practice books were saying. Now, they have context! THAT IS HUGE! Since I discovered this, I went back to the beginning. Going through simple chords and drills.

Before I mentioned that I was going through the C Major scale with the root starting on different fingers such as 6/1, 6/4 and so on. For the past week, I have been playing the C scale RELENTLESSLY from the 6/1, 6/2, 6/4, 5/1, 5/2, open and 5/4 positions (this one is a bit hard on a dreadnaught).

A few days a go, I started connecting the different scale positions. Starting in the 6/4 position, I would go up the scale until I hit the highest C in that position and then went down in 6/2 until I get to the lowest C in that position and then go up the scale again but in the 6/1 position. I do this until I get sick or the wife finds something for me to do. haha.

A baby step was also taken! With my growing familiarity to the C scale, I started playing the positions with my eyes closed and noticing when I hit a wrong note in the scale simply by sound. From there, I would just noodle around in the scale over Cmaj. It was improv but EXTREMELY simplistic. Baby steps. I know the basic feel I want as I go through it and do something along those lines.