Phase 1 · Day 5. Gate check

Exercise 4. Gate

Run the gate cold, no warm-up on the test itself.

Gate

Muting test 5/5 clean on the drive patch. Three clean picking passes at 60 BPM, four notes per click. One recording exists.

1. Muting test: C on the G string, drive patch, four beats. Five in a row with nothing else ringing.
2. Picking: three clean passes in a row at 60 BPM or more, four notes per click, on the high e.
3. The recording from day 4 exists.

All three: log it as passed, week 2 opens. Any miss: log which one, repeat the week. Repeating a week is the system working.