Christmas Calendar is operational [Archive]

JohnJumper

12-01-2005, 02:25 AM

Hey all,

The Christmas Calendar is operational. Be sure to check it out. This was a result of EricV's suggestion in another thread and a LOT of hard work from a couple of us. The URL is:

http://www.365practicesessions.com

Let me know if you have any problems with it and I will try to address them. I was supposed to make this announcement at midnight GMT but I think I missed it.

Let me know if you like it and we may continue it past Christmas!

Schooligo

12-01-2005, 07:10 AM

This is a great idea!!

I'm sure it was "alot of hard work", so

Thanks to all who made the effort to bring this special calendar to realization, your effort is "noteworthy" :D

Btw: I think that including the powertab file is a very valuable addition to learning the exercise.

Thanks again!

ashc

12-01-2005, 01:49 PM

Looks good ! This idea could really help to keep things fresh trying something new rather than constantly working on the same stuff.

ice 9

12-01-2005, 03:48 PM

thats really cool
thanks

gersdal

12-01-2005, 05:10 PM

Great. Good work John. You got many hits?

JohnJumper

12-01-2005, 07:53 PM

There we 39 unique hits so far today...

UKRuss

12-01-2005, 08:03 PM

Really great work guys. Looks great.

Sorry I haven't contributed yet I will do soon!

Cheers, Russ

gersdal

12-01-2005, 11:05 PM

There we 39 unique hits so far today...
Great. A splendid job John.
Sorry I haven't contributed yet I will do soon!
Cheers, Russ
I'm sure that will be some great contributions. Looking forward to them. Your sweeping technique is brilliant, so that's one thing we need to learn from you. :cool:

JohnJumper

12-04-2005, 12:11 AM

I just tested it with firefox and netscape -- looks like I need to do some work on the sizing of the days in those browsers...I will get on it. I am also putting together the content for each day over the next week...

JohnJumper

12-04-2005, 05:28 AM

I just tested it with firefox and netscape -- looks like I need to do some work on the sizing of the days in those browsers...

All better now...I think...you guys should tell me these things...It's like having part of a french fry hanging off your cheek..."You got something on your face...":p

UKRuss

12-04-2005, 12:50 PM

Your sweeping technique is brilliantthat's one thing we need to learn from you. :cool:

:eek:Me? No way! My sweeping sucks!

But I can certainly put some PTabs together demonstrating how it could/should be done.

...as long as i don't have to MP3 it too:o

gersdal

12-04-2005, 12:58 PM

:eek:Me? No way! My sweeping sucks!
But I can certainly put some PTabs together demonstrating how it could/should be done.
...as long as i don't have to MP3 it too:o
Sounded great to me down in Denmark St, though. John doesn't require mp3 (luckily :D ), so you will be ok.

mattblack850

12-04-2005, 03:09 PM

Looking good guys!!!!

I'll have my stuff to you by the end of tomorrow, G!!!

UKRuss

12-04-2005, 03:15 PM

Sounded great to me down in Denmark St, though. John doesn't require mp3 (luckily :D ), so you will be ok.

Very kind.:D

I still didnt want to buy that guys Jaguar copy, that was a miserable guitar eh? mind you, if you can sweep on that, you can sweep on anything maybe...:cool:

gersdal

12-04-2005, 03:37 PM

Looking good guys!!!!

I'll have my stuff to you by the end of tomorrow, G!!!
Great. Your contribution will be welcome, and a set of very good exercises too - according to your description.

gersdal

12-04-2005, 03:39 PM

Anybody had a go at my Brent Mason / Steve Trovato inspired country guitar "Hot Lick" yesterday? Can we have some mp3's, please? :D

asrm

12-04-2005, 03:46 PM

thank you very much!!!!You're Great!!

NickGT

12-05-2005, 03:34 AM

Not sure if its the same warm up for a whole week or not, but it's got the same one for each day. If it is sorry just trying to help. Good stuff guys!

JohnJumper

12-05-2005, 05:45 AM

No problem Nick - we need the help. That is a great observation...The intent, at this time, is to get a new warmup each week. Right now I am VERY slim on warmup exercises submitted (so far only one more in the current library). We need warmups!! Come up with some exercises that are not to technical but not so boring that you want to skip them. I think there are a couple of articles here that talk about the warmup stage of the practice session check them out and send us some new warm ups.

I wanted to emphasize that players need to warm up each and every time they practice but I do not have enough different warmup exercises to place a new one each day. The plan right now is to provide a new one on Thursday which is the official warm up day.

Everyone...send me warmups and I will try to vary them or cycle them more often based on the number of warm ups we get.

JohnJumper

12-05-2005, 05:51 AM

Bye the way ... we are up to 109 unique visitors and about 80% of those seem to be returning because they have added us to their favorites!! That is pretty good for a week. It also looks like they are coming from locations other then iBreatheMusic as well. This is great fun! I am glad people are enjoying this!!!

NickGT

12-05-2005, 06:04 AM

I'll send in some warm ups definitely, I'll try tomorrow cause it's gettin kinda late.

Jimmy

12-07-2005, 03:08 PM

Lemme know how to contribute!

This is such an awesome idea. Can't believe we didn't have it earlier and defo carry on after Xmas!!! please! ;)

joe34

12-07-2005, 03:37 PM

i think keeping the same warmup for a full week is a good idea myself. I dont think its productive if you have to learn a warmup exercise everyday before you can use it as your warmup. Its good to have something your semi-firmilar with and when it comes too firmilar dump it. So once a week sounds good to me.

gersdal

12-07-2005, 03:46 PM

Warm up is important, but there is IMHO no need to have something advanced and there is no need for learning something new for warm up each day. Playing the chords of few good songs can also be a sufficient warm up.

JohnJumper

12-07-2005, 04:41 PM

If you would like to contribute e-mail the power-tab and a paragraph or two describing the intent behind the exercise to the following e-mail:

NewExercise@365PracticeSessions.com

Additionally, provide the name you want as the contributor and the url you want that name to link to. That URL could be your web site or it could be your iBreatheMusic profile. We are using the e-mail mechanism so all the exercises are not posted up here - if we post them here then they are not new when you get them on the calendar and that would not be as fun!

JohnJumper

12-11-2005, 02:49 AM

Remember to check out the Christmas Calendar! Bande, Gersdal, Ashc and MattBlack have contributed some excellent exercises and put for a lot of effort to make it useful. Check it out!!!

http://www.365practicesessions.com (http://www.365practicesessions.com/)

gersdal

12-15-2005, 07:54 AM

Not sure if its the same warm up for a whole week or not, but it's got the same one for each day. New week, and new warm up :D Three warm up so far !!!!

ashc

12-15-2005, 09:49 AM

I'm still using that first warm-up. It's a great one!

JohnJumper

12-15-2005, 07:09 PM

I agree...That first one was the best one!

gersdal

12-15-2005, 09:02 PM

I agree...That first one was the best one!
Thanks. I prefer that type of warm ups myself. Pleased that you liked it.

gersdal

12-17-2005, 01:47 PM

Great ear training exercise on the christmas calender yesterday, mattblack.

mattblack850

12-17-2005, 06:26 PM

Thanks G!!!!

I think the majority of the credit should still go to JJ for putting the whole thing together!!

JohnJumper

12-18-2005, 02:52 AM

Thanks Matt...Hey everyone I need some Rythm and Comping exercises for this Wednesday!

JohnJumper

12-18-2005, 05:21 AM

Actually, I could also use some more warmup exercises - I have use the last one I have...

pyure

12-19-2005, 11:46 PM

great site guys, but since im only finding it now i think ill save it for january 1st as part of my new years resolution to play more :-)

gersdal

12-20-2005, 09:07 AM

great site guys, but since im only finding it now i think ill save it for january 1st as part of my new years resolution to play more :-)Dont wait untill tomorrow with things you can do today :D

Mentalstealth

12-22-2005, 10:10 PM

Excellent idea, people! Thanks to JohnJumper for his work. I've already started using it, and found some good ideas to pass on to my pupils.

And why wait 'till the first of January, when you can improve your playing today. Go for it! :)

Cheerz!

JohnJumper

12-23-2005, 05:29 AM

Glad you are all enjoying the calendar! Send in those exercises for January. I am planing on having a Hard Rockin Riff Week in January so get your riffs in!!!

Wicked_Dreams

12-31-2005, 03:14 AM

Hey guys...

Great job, wonderful website...

Here's an alt picking exercise I "made up" today, it's nothing new by any means (Hence the quotes :)), but I have never practiced something as fun as this, EVER.

It's a cliched 3 string arp with a 4th added, I don't know what chord that would be, I need to catch up on my theory.

Anyway, there are more shapes within the scale (Should be done all over the neck anyway), but I just settled for those three, you can just play them in order or jump between them for added melodic flavor.

As usual, each note should be played once, twice, three times, and four times.

It's 6:15 AM right now and I didn't sleep yet so I just cooked it up real quick, sorry ^_^, I hope you guys can re-arrange it, I gave one example of each picking pattern instead of writing out the whole thing.

I know it looks simple, but before anything, just try it for yourself, it's really, REALLY fun, if you don't feel like working on alternate picking, this will hopefully put you in the mood.

I love coming up with exercises, it's a great workout for ME, so please comment on this one, I'll try to help out with the other exercises you need, probably take a look at it tomorrow.

Lowthorpe

04-14-2006, 03:21 PM

My humps.....my humps my humps my humps......my lovely lady lumps....my humps my humps my bump..

RedsFan75

04-18-2006, 04:47 PM

I for one loved the series on the Blues!

It would be nice if you could do a Themed month! Maybe a month of Jazz, Country, etc... Maybe there are contributers here that could help with it!

Excellent work all of you.

JohnJumper

04-24-2006, 04:20 AM

Hey all... I have been so busy lately that I have barely been able to do anything. I would love to do a theme month but I do not have enough exercises in any one area. Actually, the contributions have stopped coming in the last months and I have been extremly busy with work so I have not had time to come up with lesson plans.

Additionally, my studio has been torn up in the last 6 weeks because I am doubling its squarefeet and having it finished (carpet, wallboard and paint). I just got it finished up this past Thursday and am starting to move the gear back into it. If I can get to it I will try and come up with some ideas...

Additionally, I had a hard disk crash ... :( ...! So I have lost a lot of my exercises that were not on the site yet. I may have backups of some of them but I am not sure...

gersdal

04-24-2006, 03:11 PM

John, You've been doing a great job. I hope your problems gets sorted out, and that you find the files again. If you'd like to do a theme, I guess that should be mentioned here at IBM well in advance, giving us some time to think up some contributions.

I would still love to see the exercise calender integrated on the IBM site, to be a little closer to our attention and making it easier for others also to run in times where John is busy, but that is not up to me to decide.. :p

DracWell

04-24-2006, 03:22 PM

Wow, this was/is a great idea! Perfect for my lazy non-disceplined [insert body part]. :)

EDIT: Regardings today warmup by gerhard... wouldn't it be better to start at a higher fret then move it down instead of the other way around? if you do that you start with bigger stretch and end with smaller stretch. Anyway that's what my teacher told me, this way you avoid stretching too far. Just a thought :)

gersdal

04-24-2006, 05:35 PM

Regardings today warmup by gerhard... wouldn't it be better to start at a higher fret then move it down instead of the other way around? if you do that you start with bigger stretch and end with smaller stretch. Anyway that's what my teacher told me, this way you avoid stretching too far. Just a thought :)I agree and that is really what I do in practice. Good point

DracWell

04-26-2006, 02:00 PM

I have to say, this being the third day. This has really helped me alot! If not it's a great warmup before rehearsal. :D

JohnJumper

04-30-2006, 05:05 AM

Name that guitar. Who's guitar is on this months calendar? Can you name it? I have set up May too... Anybody reconize that guitar?

ashc

04-30-2006, 10:43 AM

Brian May's "red special" and, I guess, Jimi's hand painted flying V.

JohnJumper

08-01-2006, 02:59 PM

Just a reminder that the Calendar is still out there and I have been keeping it up. I have not been around here a lot lately - just been so busy. But I have been trying to keep the calendar going.

DracWell

08-01-2006, 07:53 PM

I'm there daily! :)
Made lots of improvement, mainly learning the different modes and arps.

JohnJumper

11-21-2006, 06:38 PM

Just a reminder. The calendar is still out there as we go into the Christmas Season. Some of you may not have know about this calendar. We started it last Christmas and we have continued it through the year.

gersdal

11-21-2006, 09:36 PM

It's impressing that you still keep the calender running. Impressing job.

JohnJumper

11-22-2006, 11:53 PM

Why, thank you gersdal :D it was a great idea (I think Eric V. suggested it first) and its a great tool. If I get some time over the holidays I might try to extend it. I was thinking of adding a chord to each day - if others have some ideas on how they would like it extended - let me know.