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(almost) Daily Blather
2022-09-23 22:20:41 (UTC)

Making progress...

I am no where near where I should be, however, I do believe I am making some progress. I am talking about my progress in learning to play the guitar. I have been on this leg of my musical journey for just over three years. Granted, classes are only once a week, and our instructor gets off on verbal tangents. But in my mind, I would think three years of lessons I would be good enough to start gigging. LoL

I must admit, I have not practice near as often as I should to get to the gigging level of skill. But I do have to say I am picking up new bits and pieces a little easier than I used to. I am still no where near playing to proper tempo, and I get lost fairly easily, especially in class where 4-5 of us are playing at the same time....and not all of us are synchronized with each other. That does NOT make it easy to follow along with the instructor.

The thought has crossed my mind to stop classes and just go the self taught/learn from YouTube videos route. Or find a friend that is willing to show me some chords or licks. Teach me how to play a complete song all of the way through. Tonight is my first attempt at learning the melody, and it is going pretty good.




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