With Thanksgiving AND getting a new puppy (longish story – maybe I’ll post about it sometime), I didn’t post (or make) either a practice plan or update videos. I did make it to Taborgrass, so had several new things to work on last week. The thing is, sometimes it ends up this way and practice isn’t that great for a week. We just pick up again this week.

Practice Plan for 27 November 2022

Lesson:

No lesson this week (was rescheduled to next week).

Playing With Others:

I didn’t make it out to play with others last week (we went to Washington to spend Thanksgiving with my parents – my mom has terminal cancer). I want to try to make it out to the old-time jam on Thursday, but we will see. Might be the Vancouver jam on Tuesday.

1) New Material

• Chinquapin Hunting
• Angeline the Baker
• Squirrel Hunters

2) Developing Material

• Bluebirds Are Singing for Me (words – always the words)
• You Won’t be Satisfied that Way
• Bury Me Beneath the Willow (Michael Daves class)
• Road to Columbus (learning Bill Monroe break on “Kenny Baker Plays…”)
• Cold Frosty Morn
• Bill Cheathum
• Cluck Red Hen
• Goodbye Liza Jane
• Old Joe Clark

3) Performance Material

• Jenny Jenkins
• Cindy
• Make Me Down a Pallet

4) Techniques

• Chord tone scales
• Double stops (again, again, still)
• Cross-picking Potatoes

5) Musicianship

• Transposing (using the key signature spinner)
• Standing while playing
• Ear training
• Transcribe (my own recording): Ricky Ricardo
• Writing: Dollar Store Frankfurter