Sunday, June 22, 2008
[NEW RELEASE] NIKE 1WORLD - GORE-TEX
The newly launched Nike 1World project has been created in conjunction with select cool kids in the “sports, music, art and design fields”, presumably hand-picked for their innate panache on a global scale. The scope of 1World has been defined as 18 original shoes, which will be launched month by month via Nike's awesome AF-1 website.
Today the first three have now been revealed – from the rainbow excess of Busy P to the refelective digital camo of Gore-Texer (Nitro Microphone Underground) and finally Rasheed’s hightop with ‘Max Air’, you couldn’t find three more different AF-1s if you tried. Definitely a bright start to this project...
Just go to http://www.nikeairforce1.com and hit the 1World button - all will be revealed in due course!
Guitar backing tracks not only make you a better soloist and improviser, but they also can help you to learn scales better. Many players can't stand the thought on running up and down scales all day long. Some would rather not learn them at all. What if practicing your scales was actually fun?
Let's say you are just not into learning scales. How can we do this? Take a scale that you already know. We will use the minor pentatonic scale for an example. Most players already know it. Through on a guitar backing track in the key that you will practice. With the track playing, start to just play up and down the scale getting used to the sound. Listen to each note against the chord changes.
Now stop the guitar backing track and work out 2 licks using the scale pattern. Make sure they are on different sets of strings. Maybe use 3rd and 4th string for lick number 1 and 1st and 2nd string for lick number2.
Now that you have your licks, start up the guitar backing track again and start playing the first lick. Play this lick over and over changing the phrasing. Change the rhythm. Hold some notes longer each time around. Vary the dynamics and put accents on certain notes. Do the same thing for the second lick the next time around. Make sure that you are playing licks that are not your "staples". We want brand new stuff here.
Your next step is to learn these licks one octave higher. This is going to take a couple of minutes to work out. If you are struggling, work out your lick note by note and tab it out. That way you can use your tab to memorize the lick a little at a time. You now have four licks. The 2 originals and the two licks one octave higher. But also just as important, you are playing in the same key as you started but you are playing on a different area of the fret board. So you just learned another scale pattern without being having to run up and down a new pattern.
Throw on your guitar backing track and jam on the 4 new licks.
Paul Celly has started writing for ckoMusic. Make your guitar practice way more productive with ckoMusic guitar backing tracks.
