My first Youtube Video... Playing some pentatonic for practice.

[NeverPracticing]

The goal is to post videos of practicing each day so that I have proof of progress. We'll see where it goes. I would also like to have enough music so that I can sleep to my own playlists. I'm not sure how this will go, but here is the link for anybody interested.

 

[Guy Named Sue]

Keep at it! My suggestion is maybe play along with a song, something that leaves lot of room for improve.

Sailing to Philadelphia by Knopfler for example leaves great deal of room for you to improvise pentatonic and also pick up some of what knopfler is good at.

 

[NeverPracticing]

Sailing to Philadelphia by Knopfler for example leaves great deal of room for you to improvise pentatonic and also pick up some of what knopfler is good at.

Thank you for the suggestion. I am definitely using it! I am just at the point where I know how to go up and down each of the 5 shapes of the pentatonic, but I'm slow at going between them. Improvising over a backing track will probably help with my obvious timing problems as well. I appreciate it.

 

[NeverPracticing]

Here's an update:

 

[IsaiasO]

Like @Guy Named Sue stated, you need to play along with music, so that there's context to what you're playing. At this moment, it sounds like Chinese riffs, because your not rooted to something with context.

 

[NeverPracticing]

More "Chinese riffs" aka playing without a backing track.

 

[NeverPracticing]

Guys, I swear, I'm getting better at guitar. Video quality aside...

 

[NeverPracticing]

Playing around with fuzz

 

[NeverPracticing]

Still getting better and stuff.

 

[Seamus OReally]

You need to be practicing playing in time. You should get a metronome.