Week Four- Things Going Good, but Slow

Hi again.  Sorry this post is up a little late.  Truth be told, this week things just seemed to slow down a lot for me and my guitar- I don’t feel stuck or anything, just like I’m going at a steady, comfortable pace.

I’m starting to feel a little skepticism about completing this entire lesson book by March 23rd.  I’m already behind- I had hoped to have section one done by Feb. 9th, however it is the biggest section, and the other two also contain songs that are repeated in different ways instead of re-learned entirely.  Yet I don’t feel like I’m learning too slow, either.  If I took up the lessons in this book any faster, I wouldn’t be learning them fully and polishing them at all, just barrelling through.  Which I could do, but for what?  I only remember music when I repeat it.

Oh, and I’ve learned a lesson that I always struggled with when I played piano- if you really hate playing the piece that much, move on.  There was one piece of music in my book that I just had no interest in.  I decided to play the one afterwards instead, and I’m doing just fine.  In the past, I would have condemned myself to practice it despite my own reluctance.  However, I want to enjoy this process, not make it torturous.

Does anyone know how to play a chord with a bracket over the whole thing?  the version of the F chord that I’m supposed to use in the one song seems just impossible, and I’m wondering if I’m supposed to have a special tool to play it or something.  It looks like this:

In other fun news, one of my practices during week four turned into a jam session of sorts.  I brought my guitar to my friends’ apartment to play for them, and they in turn pulled out their instruments: a trumpet and a saxophone.  We couldn’t really play together, but we had fun playing for each other.  Oh, and one of them then tried to make tenor drumsticks out of a couple of pencils, but that didn’t go too well.

One more bit of info for people looking for resources; stay away from tabcrawler.com (not hyperlinked, because I don’t want you to go there, silly).  When I tried to read a tab there, I had two viruses try to download themselves onto my computer, both luckily stopped in their tracks by my anti-virus system.  I’m going to steer clear of there from now on.

Image by (Tres) “descamarado” on Flickr.

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