What? What is happening here…?
I’m just resurfacing from my first encounter with module 10 practice. First learnings: Weak finger G is familiar; mini barre A is easy enough; the push thing is easy… and difficult (I can get the chord change on 4+ … But skipping the strum on 1… will require some work); La Bamba riff memorized and I’m able to play it by ear (if too slowly); “Like a rolling stone” for F-barre change practice is challenging ( … but hopefully doable at some point; so far interestingly changing from Dm to F-barre seems easiest); hammer-ons are put there for my amusement, right?
Those will be a major construction site for me… Well, at least I laughed a lot
Now to the important points:
@rorystrat , Peter, don’t you ever apologize for sharing your thoughts in my Learning Log. It’s not easy to confuse me. And: In fact you didn’t confuse me at all. On the contrary, I am always eager to learn… and I greatly welcome your expertise and knowledge. It’s entirely up to me then, what I want to make of it at which part of my journey. Plus, I always appreciate people who can actually make me think
I admit, it might be different with people who have been following Justin from the very beginning of their guitar adventure. But… that’s not me. Playing on and off I have been exposed to different sources, and I think I’m able to decide what I want to focus on next.
No worries there either, Andrea. I do actually like that my Learning Log has turned into a discussion platform at the moment.
@rorystrat and @ziggysden Peter and Stuart: I’m absolutely fascinated that one says my plan is slowish and the other one says it’s too much and fast. In the end, you are probably both right, depending on how you look at my plan.
First, of all Stuart @ziggysden, you are absolutely correct. It looks as if I would want to persue four modules in one week. In fact it’s three “only”. I was simply too lazy to mark the Sundays as end day of a certain module and add Mondays as beginning days of new modules. That’s why those screenshots look more confusing than they probably should.
Indeed practicing all activities of all three modules active at a certain time will be impossible during workdays. I simply won’t have enough time and will have to pick certain activities and will have to rotate them around. Add in stressful workdays, and it’s certain that the plan is too ambitious.
@rorystrat Peter, have you seen… That if all works well, I will allow myself to start the first Grade 3 practice in January already? Plus … Add in that I’m currently revisiting Strumming SOS1, will bravely make my way through SOS2 and the Finger Strumming course… and that I won’t be able to go without - at least diving somewhat deeper into fingerpicking, music theory and simple improvising… The plan is for the “mandatories” only… everything else is luxury