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Day 7, June 29, 2007

Well, I made it! What an amazing week. The 8th and final chapter in Wild Stringdom introduces the learner to the concept of playing non-guitar music. In other words, playing music originally written for other instruments. John transcribes music such as Chopin's Etude No. 2, violin warm-up exercises he learned from a violinist while he was touring in 

I'm rapidly coming to and end of my week-long quest. I've feel as though I have learned more over this past week than I had over the past year! Setting goals is so important for anything we wish to accomplish in life. Some times one really needs a great teacher to inspire them, and that's what I found in John Pettruci through his Wild Stringdom book. I think the next blog I'll start

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Already I'm a better player. Yesterday was amazing. I have renewed enthusiasm for practicing and playing. What I really like about this chatper is that John points out several instances where one shoudl take care not to injure him/herself while practicing and he suggests stretching exercises, etc. That is critically important and shows he really cares about his students. This book is exactly what the doctor ordered. Following is a quick summary of my observations.

Chapter 3 - Expanding my techniques

Example 15-Intervallic Slides

I've been really wanting to improve my improvising skills and sliding is a big part of

I just cracked open John Petrruci's Wild Stringdom  instructional book, popped in the CD that comes with it, and read chapter 1. John talks about the importance of establishing a solid practice routine. He gives good practical advice that I will try to follow as I embark on this mission to complete the tab book cover-to-cover, note for note.

Chapter 2 is where the fun begins. He specifically covers the importance

Hi, I'm an advanced beginner guitarist and I am on a quest - I've given myself 7 days to go through all 8 chapters of John Petrucci's