These were my final two days of my “guitar journey.” It was hard to find time in my day everyday to practice, so I didn’t do all of these days consecutively. Being a college student got in the way a lot. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t seem to perfect the timing of …
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Days Eleven and Twelve
I practiced “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “Wait a Minute!” a million times. That’s basically all I’ve been doing. Like I said in the last post, my fingers just won’t switch fast enough and to get it perfect and be able to switch my fingers to certain chords fast enough I’ll have to …
Days Nine and Ten
I feel like my progress was kind of starting to plateau on days nine and ten. I was practicing the songs I had been practicing before but for some reason I couldn’t get the timing of switching my fingers to different chords perfectly. I always seem to not be able to switch my fingers fast …
Day One
The first day of playing guitar was very rough. It’s been a really long time since I’ve picked up the guitar because I got busy and lost motivation. I had to remind myself of all the guitar string notes. All of the callus on my fingers was gone, so I’m going to have to start …
Day Eight
On day eight, my timing had improved immensely for the song “I Want to Hold Your Hand” by The Beatles. It felt more natural and I was super excited because I didn’t have to work so hard to switch my fingers into the different chords. I also continued practicing with barre chords, specifically the F …
Days Six and Seven
I began barre chords on day six. Barre chords take a lot of practice and when I tried doing them a long time ago I couldn’t do them right away so I got really discouraged. But this time, I decided to put in the effort and even after only two days they weren’t perfect but …
Days Four and Five
Five days. That is how long it took to build up callus on my fingers. The songs I was playing started to sound better and more seamless, although not perfect. I’ve tried barre chords before, but because I’m a beginner it’s difficult to get a clear sound out of it and to press down on …
Day Three
Day three was definitely an improvement from the last couple of days. My fingertips still were really hurting from the strings, but maybe the callus will develop soon? I was able to play “I Want to Hold Your Hand” a lot better by the third day if I’m being honest but still not perfect obviously. …
