With a few non-musical activities behind me for a short while, its back to guitar practice but  this time with some accompanying vocals. 

Currently I am paying attention to learning / rehearsing four songs, trying develop two guitar skills and also learning how-to-use two items of equipment.

The four songs in progress are covers of:

1. Only You by Yazoo – my guitar arrangement with a Guitar Phaser effect;
2. Just One Look by Doris Troy / The Hollies;
3. Time of Your Life – Greenday – My relearning challenge;
4. Wonderful Land – The Shadows (Instrumental).

The two guitar skills I’m focussing upon are:

1. Vibrato – by hand and with tremolo arm  – for ‘Only You’ and ‘Wonderful Land’;
2. Blues scales – start of a general scales learning exercise.

The two pieces of kit where  I’m wading towards the deep end are:

1. Zoom G3Xn Guitar pedal  – trying to get ‘The Shadows’ Sound;
2. TC Helicon Mic Mechanic vocal effects pedal – learning about this new to me piece of kit and trying to set tasteful delay and reverb levels along with the default tone settings for EQ / De-Ess/ Noise Gate.  So far this suggests that it is going to help with my vocals.

I’ve also been gently looking at two Christmas songs:

1. One More Sleep – Leona Lewis – possibly as an instrumental cover?
2. Someday At Christmas – Stevie Wonder – guitar and vocals?