The guitar...one year on
29/09/06 15:04 Filed in: Music
Well after
about 12 months of fortnightly visits to a tutor for
30 minutes of show, try, look, listen and then a pile
of stuff to go away and practice. I know that I have
progressed. You could argue that starting from
scratch is the only time to show rapid progress.
Well, I'm still encouraged and by measuring things it
is possible to actually see improvement.
As an old dog definitely trying to learn new tricks, the hands, fingers and brain are sometimes well out of alignment. But in an encouraging book I got there are 3 P's to consider: Patience, Perseverance and Practice. Along with the idea that you do not set any personal everests - how it is difficult when all you hear in the music you listen to and the musicians you see - are people very much at the top of their game.
Still after a year, I'm progressing with soloing around the pentatonic scales, getting the main open chords and main barre chords up to a satisfactory consistency and fluidity. Though I admin readily that I have some obvious weaknesses - D minor chord! Just started to finger-pick a bit. That's hard - and as a point to not develop bad habits I'm deliberately not looking at my right hand.
As an old dog definitely trying to learn new tricks, the hands, fingers and brain are sometimes well out of alignment. But in an encouraging book I got there are 3 P's to consider: Patience, Perseverance and Practice. Along with the idea that you do not set any personal everests - how it is difficult when all you hear in the music you listen to and the musicians you see - are people very much at the top of their game.
Still after a year, I'm progressing with soloing around the pentatonic scales, getting the main open chords and main barre chords up to a satisfactory consistency and fluidity. Though I admin readily that I have some obvious weaknesses - D minor chord! Just started to finger-pick a bit. That's hard - and as a point to not develop bad habits I'm deliberately not looking at my right hand.
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