Well, I haven’t really progressed since my last post. Lots of stuff has been going on. While we really enjoyed the Christmas holiday with the visit of my sister and hubby and pup, my husband’s health was deteriorating, and my older dog Ziggy was also getting sicker.
My husband is improving since someone finally put him on antibiotics, but he underwent all kinds of tests, and everything was turning up negative except for 1 Lyme disease test, hence the antibiotics. We’re still not sure that’s what it is but at least he’s better than he was.
Unfortunately, my Ziggy is no longer with me, and I’ve been pretty depressed. He liked to come into my room and lay there while I practiced guitar. Kaylee, on the other hand leaves.
So being in the mood to practice has been tough. I’m feeling a little better the last 3 days. I’ve decided to break up my routines into 20-minute chunks. A couple of times I even enjoyed myself.
However, my acoustic practice is pretty bad as my fingers just don’t want to press the string hard enough to get nice ringing notes and forget the F barre chord altogether. I’ve decided to order those 11 gauge strings I’ve been muttering about for months and hope that will help.
I hope changing the strings will be easier than on my electric PRS. The hubby and I did that the other day, and it took 2 hours. It didn’t help that the string package did not say which were which, apparently, it’s supposed to be easy to figure out. Fortunately removing the first 2 strings we put on incorrectly, onto their proper tuners didn’t destroy them.
So, I’m spending 20 minutes on my acoustic now, mainly working on finger pressing and note sounds and the other 40 minutes on my electric, on which I have no trouble doing the barre chord shape up and down the neck.
I need to get back to learning new stuff. A year ago, I was on Module 10 of Grade 2 and I’m still in the middle of Module 13. But though I’m not necessarily learning new and wondrously frustrating techniques, I am learning songs, songs, songs.
Also, I’m pretty sure I’ve now had my 2nd year anniversary here with Justin Guitar. To think 2 years ago I knew nothing and now I can play a few songs from memory. It feels really great!