Thats awesome Birgit.  The more variety in your approach to learning - the richer and luxurious the resulting music!

Robert inspired me with his suggestions and I created my own backing track for the G harmonic minor practice.

I played the chord progression with my Epiphone and only played the chord voicings on the 3 higher strings with the exception of the Bb. I adjusted everything a bit with the chords and I hope it fits ! Sounds like playing the organ.

I created the drum track in my program Chord Pulse and then mixed everything together.

Playing along with the chord backing track helps a lot 👍. I will practice regularly now and maybe share another recording in a few months when I can play better and maybe increase my tempo.

Birgit

Hi sorry for the late reply. Hey great job! This is a good exercise. I can see your technique is getting better! Keep up the good work.

I only found out that the harmonic minor scale is also used in heavy metal when I started practicing it.

In the meantime, I've been studying this music style a bit and at the age of 66 I'm in the process of learning my first Metallica riff.

I still have a lot to learn and I'm starting at a very slow tempo. But it's incredible fun.

Especially the A5 power-chord, which is played in the 7th and 9th fret, I find incredibly expressive and gives so much energy.

Birgit

That is very cool - Metallica has some great riffs. 

The day before yesterday I happened to find Robert's beautiful Southern Rock Guitar solo in E major while browsing through his „2 Minute Lessons“. Robert mentioned that he wrote it based on „Soulshine“ by the Allman Brothers. As Dickey Betts has just died, I decided to rehearse the solo without further ado.

Here is a first attempt.

By the way : The 2-minute lessons are always a treasure trove of unexpectedly beautiful things to practise. Highly recommended. Thank you Robert 👍.

Birgit

Nice work, Birgit!