Lesson 3

Lesson 3 and post 1, I know this doesn’t exactly match, but hey I’m a little slow.  In my attempt to learn to play the guitar I started this blog to get feed back from anyone who does play guitar.  Ok so now you don’t need to read the about page. I bought my first guitar- accoustic- about 2 years ago. Of course I was instantly on the path to being a pro. I started lessons right away. Long story short, just because someone can take a $50 guitar and get any song out of it doesn’t mean the can teach what they do. Yes I could have practiced more, but our music style were very different so that ended quickly. But the next best thing to having an accoustic guitar? Having an electric too. So I bought an electric, cheap (it’s all in the sound) amp and whatever else goes with that. So instead of one guitar sitting in the closet gathering dust I now have two.

In the proper script of a movie inspired life, I had an epiphany the other week. One life to live! If I don’t learn to play guitar now (when I’m young) when will I? And yadda, yadda, yadda. I did not. I want to play the guitar well, and the only thing stopping me is my own procrastination and laziness. I have no motivation to practice if I don’t have to. Knowing that I have to play the previous lesson for a (rather) unforgiving teacher is a great motivation. That is why I am taking lessons, I am want to play guitar, I am willing to pay for lessons, and I will practice (unfortunately only if pushed.)

So lesson three, ok back up to first lesson. Discussed music preference, chords or tabulature, and do we understand timing? We do, but at the time we weren’t sure, in fact we weren’t sure of anything. Lesson two. Decided on tabulature, we like most styles of music- but not country, bluegrass or jazz. Oh yeah and hardly practiced the songs we got. Felt a renewed vigour after sitting through lesson and wishing to be someplace else. Now lesson three. Did practice, every day. Songs like- Angels We Have Heard On High; Let It Snow, Let It Snow; Amazing Grace and others. Noticable improvement over previous week. But timing stinks. Felt like a Ferrari in the Roman chariot race. So lesson 4- will practice new songs, doing all tabulature by the way, and try to slow down. And keep picking away at the old songs. I’ll let you know what happens.