All along the watchtower reheasal log 17/09/16

Today I started to learn my second song choice, All along the watchtower by Jimi Hendrix; this song is a lot more complicated than Jesus of suburbia so I started straight away with the tab notation sheet music. Today I just worked on the opening chord riff, then the first lead solo. The opening riff is very easy, just 3 chords, 2 of which are major and 1 is minor. The lead part however, is rather challenging because it is heavily dominated by tone bends, so it is hard to make sure I bend them to the correct pitch, most of the bends are whole step bends. There are a couple of hammer ons and pull offs which are normally easy but because in this song they are done quite fast, it took me a while to get but eventually I got it. I just kept practicing it slowly in small chunks instead of all together and at the original tempo, and once I got it all, I practiced it all together repeatedly, increasing the tempo each time.