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I am currently back on a practice routine of 4-6 hours or more per day. I am working hard on technical exercises which are the 3 note per string patterns of major and minor and also harmonic and melodic minor in several speeds. I am also working on doing those patterns with tremolo picking which in fact is quite a challenge for me because I considered myself a legato player before and I always skipped those exercises. Beside these exercises I really want to take my chances now on sweep picking techniques. This is really hard for the fingers and it needs many many repetitions to get it all right so that you can start to use those passages in regular playing. My goal is to get a more complete player and so it is necessary to go through this. It's really something which also needs regular sports exercises besides to not get into injuries because playing guitar is not a natural movement for the body and so besides that practice routines it is necessary to do sports at least on a 2 days or better daily rhythm. Beside the scale and pattern practice and working a lot on the development of a truly emotional guitar sound with puristic sound settings such as a Fender Deluxe with only a spring reverb and medium distortion sounds and dynamic playing with pinch harmonics and dynamic pic work during runs and phrases. It starts to work out fine - especially on my new guitar which really displays all little nuances of the playing technique. I also work on a fat and emotional sound with the slighly distorted Fender Deluxe sound in the very high positions from the 15th till the 24th fret. There I have the problem that my fingers are too big for the small frets so thats a challenge to get things sounding great up there and to have full tone control. And last but not least I am upgrading the jazz department. My goal is to get this new emotional guitar sound and playing technique into regular jazz standards in improvisation from 60bpm till currently 220bpm. And therefore I am working on the jazz standards in the list below to always follow each chord in the improvisation. Thats the keypoint in jazz guitar improvisation from my point of view. So here is the list of the jazz standards I am currently working on : Misty Blue in Green Autumne Leaves All of Me All The Things You Are Fly Me To The Moon Cold Duck Time Girl From Ipanema Jazz Blues Oleo Flintstones Footprints Night In Tunesia ( I love love love this one here ) Stella By Starlight Take the A Train There Will Never Be Another You And last but not least don't miss the next guitar night livestream on Oct. 21st at 20:00 Zürich Time.