Here she is folks, new addition to the family
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Sweet John!! i love a cutaway acoustic 
Wishing you much fun with her,looks like you need to by a(nother?) guitar stand however.
And jeepers how big is that TV??!!
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Thank you! Moved the full size away in to storage so the newbie has the previous guitar stand.
TV isn’t that big, nice little 55" 
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Enjoyed my first Zoom lesson with Lee Mead-Batten on Beginner Club #6 Power Chord Basics. Working on Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love. Well worth attending!
Then I stumbled across a vid on G Major scale in 3rds which is something that I’ve looked at a couple of time. Did more of a deep dive in to it but I’m just not getting it, its not sinking in. May be that I’m too tirednow, I’ve been “braining” all day and then the zoom call… I just can’t “see” the pattern so I can’t learn it…
I’ll keep going at it and I’m sure it’ll sink in at some point…
OK, If I can “see” the note (G, A, B, C etc) next to the fret number then I can kind of see the pattern a bit clearer… The curse of suffering from Aphantasia…
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Morning all! Not been here for a while and actually didn’t touch a guitar for quite some time due to… life. (Don’t worry its life, we all get through it 
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Anyways, started again a couple of weeks ago and realised that I had been stagnating before. I thought I had been practising the same things but in fact I hadn’t, I had just been “doing” them. The difference being, I was doing with no intent of improving. The point of practice is to improve so you have to be more intentional about it.
So, get back to basics, get back to learning and improving… Starting again and things feel better and I am learning things and understanding better. Things are “clicking” in my brain better.
One of my complaints was that nothing I did sounded musical to me, it all sounded robotic, even when I performed the chords, fingering etc correctly.
Then I found something I already knew about but hadn’t considered…
12 Bar Blues!
I looked at the the 12 bar blues 1,4,5 in key of A and could SEE why it works and how it works in every key and what that means.
More importantly, at its basics, it is relatively easy to do and sounds musical!!! The most simple and basic form of it IS MUSIC!
Full scales and Pentatonic scales are not music, but I see how they are the components of music.
I can now see the parts of scales being used when people are playing. Its like hearing a new word and figuring out how to say it and what it means by understanding the letters and how the word is structured.
Its like watching Bob Ross paint a scenery.
So with renewed gusto, I’ve gone back to the online course and thrown myself in to Module 2. Things are just making more sense now. I’m not struggling to learn the meaning behind the information whilst struggling to physically follow so I’m able to enjoy it more and feel like I’m getting it rather than just copying in a monkey see, monkey do style.
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