Mike Outram

Here are all the posts from the second ‘Pages From A Notebook’ series. Enjoy!

1. Some Things To Do With Whatever You’re Learning
2. Best Use Of A Diminished Chord?
3. Play into changes before they happen
4. Diminished chords in scales
5. Tech Ideas
6. Composite Scales
7. Muting Test
8. Technique Is Control
9. Filters
10. Balletic Movements
11. Wittgenstein On Games
12. Play your own music
13. What does it all mean?
14. Picking Exercise #1
15. Picking Exercise #2
16. Picking Exercise #3
17. Picking Exercise #4
18. Create or break a habit
19. Start from a different place
20. Feelings
21. Go back to the root
22. How to play Giant Steps on the guitar
23. Give yourself a problem
24. Holiday for hand
25. Subtract
26. The Last Minute
27. What to do?
28. Polyrhythm exercise
29. Say Yes
30. The Scene
31. Altered Nat. 5th
32. Voicing Layers
33. Random Practice Material
34. Secondary Dominants
35. Night and Day
36. Count Yourself In
37. Stop Talking
38. Don’t Apologise
39. Make room for agility
40. Whip cracker
41. Picasso and the pencil
42. It’s not rocket science
43. Motivic Transformation
44. Adaptation
45. The Sonorous Image
46. Forty Six
47. Opportunities Missed
48. Perspective
49. Phrasing Exercise
50. Put the hours in
51. Decorating polyrhythms
52. Musical Pong
53. Tour Guide
54. Polychord
55. Painting or sculpting
56. Let’s have a beer…
57. The Machine
58. Fives in seven
59. Nine over Six
60. The first bite
61. Pedal Point
62. Thought lines
63. Touch
64. Immersion
65. Nerdgasm
66. On topic
67. Sparks
68. Inner Urge made easy.
69. Lightning in a bottle, part 2
70. Practice Hack
71. Quality Change
72. Surroundings
73. 10 Effective Learning Strategies
74. The old man and the dog
75. Fingers like glue
76. Another shoe, another you
77. Transcribe your life
78. Everything #1
79. Let me know when you’re in Antarctica – Nerdgasm, Part 2.
80. Everything #2 Do one thing
81. Play in time, all the time

If you’ve enjoyed any of those posts, here are some more things from me that you might like:

• Pages From A Notebook Vol.1 – 83 more music lessons
• The Jewel Box Vol.1 – 29 guitar lessons
• Longer Essays – More thoughts on music & imagination
• ElectricCampfire.com – I lead an online community of 500 guitarists who are rabidly fanatical about jazz guitar, improvisation, and music :)
• My Music – Here are around 20 recordings for you to check out.