Day 10

Guitar
|-----------------|-----------------------------|
|-----------------|---2---4---6---8---10----12--|
|-----------------|-1---3---5---7---9----11-----|
|---3---5---7---9-|-----------------------------|
|-1---3---5---7---|-----------------------------|
|-----------------|-----------------------------|

Ukulele
|-----------------------------|---3---5---7---9---|
|---2---4---6---8---10----12--|-1---3---5---7---9-|
|-1---3---5---7---9----11-----|-------------------|
|-----------------------------|-------------------|

Bass
|-----------------|---3---5---7---9-|
|---3---5---7---9-|-1---3---5---7---|
|-1---3---5---7---|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|

Like everything, play it as slow as you need to be able to play it with an even tempo/speed, and with good sound coming out of each note.
Play this up to the 12th fret.
However getting used to playing beyond the 12th fret is a good idea.
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Thanks to Brandon and Laurel for these pictures.

These open bits on the guitar's left side are called cutaways. They're there to make it easier to reach high frets. If you've got a cutaway, taking advantage of it by working with your high frets is a good idea.

Even if you don't have a cutaway, practicing drills to go as high on the fretboard as you possibly can is a good idea. 

One of our goals is to build a relationship with our instrument, and find the quirks that only your instruments have. 

As for the drill today, music theory-wise it's up a fifth, down a fifth from that note, up a fifth from that note, and so on. For bassists (which I am), knowing how to find your fifths without looking is an extremely important skill. You can fake a baseline to almost any song with the root, fifth, and octave of the chord being played. For everyone, learning to tune your ear to hear fifths will help you so much in your music life.  

If you're really interested in learning to hear fifths up and fifths down, do it doubled.

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|---3---3-|-3---3---|----5---5-|-5---5------|

|-1---1---|--3---3--|-3---3----|---5---5----|

Guitar and ukulele, this is to help you remember the bastard string*, as well as interval training and finger training. 

If you're not interested in music theory, not interested in music theory today, too tired to think about music theory, that's okay. Just play the tabs. Keep up the relationship with your instrument. Give your hands a chance to stretch themselves over the frets. 

What you're playing, and why you're playing it, is much less important than the fact that you're playing, when you otherwise wouldn't be.

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*There's a very good reason for that bastard string. It makes chords easier, for one thing. Basses don't play chords that much, so the regular intervals make playing easier. 

(Sorry to all you mandolin and banjo players out there. If you're dying to have mandolin/banjo/dulcimer/whatever tabs up there for you, leave a comment, and I'll try my best.)