Month: May 2010

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Life Directive: Setup for success.

Apply the below to most situations in life where you need to onboard and utilize a skill and you’ll have a framework for success.

1. Technique, Goal: Improve skill set

a) Understand how/why a toolset is applied
b) Practice toolset
c) Display correct use of toolset in training

2. Intention, Goal: Focus mindset

a) Apply the mindset to have the correct intention to use the toolset
b) Possess desire/drive to achieve the goal

3. Attention, Goal: Apply skill set accurately

a) Focus to practice technique is paramount, practice without attentiveness promotes inconsistencies
b) Attention when applying the task to a live environment, deliver what you practice

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A Quest Called Tone

This is something I’d like to think of as my tonal enlightenment! 🙂

My precursor story to getting the tones/sounds I wanted for both home practice and playing in a session with other guitarists and a P.A. In essence a few years back I:

a) Learnt that there was much more to plank spanking than just hitting the strings on the right notes and in the right order, there was this thing called tone!

b) I wanted to explore more sounds/tones that my kit (Hohner lx250 and Vantage VG15) couldn’t give me.

c) I bought a pocket pod for practice with headphones and to explore different sounds.

d) I found some sounds that I liked, bought a new guitar (Gordon Smith – Graduate Ref: [Post=”182″]) and started looking for a new amp to deliver the tone my guitar was capable of.

e) I stumbled across Continue reading “A Quest Called Tone”