Funky Guitar & Cool Solos!

I've been practising the funky stuff Tom gave me on guitar and the solo Zak gave me on electric and I'm loving both to bits.  It reinforces my idea to play in a style influenced by them both but most definitely me.  I can just imagine playing this funky rhythmic guitar with cool little licks and then throwing in just at the right moment some super fast lick - make you look up and go whoa what was that haha.  At least that's the dream in my head, it'll be a long long time before I can really see if it will work and a lot of serious hard graft ahead of me.

I hope you enjoyed yesterdays little song, it's done me proud on Instagram becoming my most watched and liked post by some way which is really cool.  It also ramps up the pressure but that's one of the main reasons I'm doing Instagram is to force myself into keeping the momentum going.  It's very easy now I can noodle on everything to keep throwing out silly little songs that don't really have structure and aren't that thought about but while it's good to keep doing them they won't make me a songwriter.  I need to use them to keep pushing technically so that one day most of these quick songs should be great ideas I can stock pile and choose from.

The idea being that I would bang out several concepts in the morning, choose my favourite to work into structured songs and then pick from there what will be worth the effort to really work on.  From those would come my final choices and those are the ones I'd release on the world.

The more efficient I can work, the more I've practised the more options I'll have.  I want to take ideas from existing songs - just a snippet of rhythm or a melody I can rework, a drum beat or tiny bit of a bass line and then build from that into something entirely new.  Take that idea and work on it into a fresh and fun song.  That's what's in my head and you can see I have a long road ahead from my silly noodles right now.  Let's hope the boys can convince me this week that it's a path I'm really on so I can stop worrying about that aspect of things and move on.

My ankle gave me lots of grief last night, my tailbone is screaming at me today and my eczema has gone CRAZY *sob*.  But sleep or no sleep it's back to work :)  Can't say I'm not committed!