Fly Me To The Moon #2

In this video I did an alternate strumming on the same jazz song, "fly me to the moon."

Instead of just doing pure strumming, I gave a little muted sound to the chords in order to give it a more accompaniment vibe. I am most probably going to use this method of strumming when I am playing with my friends and when we are performing later on.

I still need to keep on practicing these chords and  to make it second nature to me. I will also look to have some more variations and different patterns as to not make the chords sound monotone and boring.

Fly Me To The Moon Chords #1

In this video I am practicing the chords to the jazz song, 'fly me to the moon'.

My strumming were okay, not so clean but not so bad either. I could have played it much better by making a louder clearer sound. I could have also pressed my left forefinger harder onto the fretboard so that the chords will be clearer.

I am going to keep on practice the chords to the song and memorise more of the chords. By next time I should be able to play the chords to the whole song already.

Django Reinhardt Jazz Lick

Django Reinhardt is an amazing musician and after doing the Jazz presentations and finding out about him, I grew to really like his works. This is me playing one of his jazz licks.

The lick is very simple however, it requires great amount of practice to be able to play it smoothly and clearly as Django. I tried doing the lick a couple of times in the video and I have been doing it probably about 10 times before i recorded the video. The first few tries I played it slowly while gradually increasing the speed.

I thought I did okay and the beauty of the jazz lick was recognisable. But of course, I still need to train more. With the chromatic scale I am practicing in the previous video, I could really improve my skills and be able to play the jazz lick well.

Chromatic Scale

I am currently practicing the chromatic scale.

The chromatic scale is basically every single note possible and it sounds very unique and weird however nice. This is one of my ways of practicing my picking, I saw one of my friends do this and i thought it was a great idea to exercise picking, so I tried and trained so myself.

I am quite good when playing the notes forward but when going back, I find myself making careless mistakes and got the timing all wrong. To improve my skill I will practice it again.