Day 70 :
i tried playing for 40 minutes but now my shoulders is paying me back with a vengeance 
good news is : i m improving on power chords ( easy now that i realised i was not playing the right note XD )
I made only 2 mistakes while working on the last part of the song at full speed
And i finally got gold on the last part of I aint got nobody
Played O sole mio entirely ( Training for Picking control )
Lots of mistakes
Played The boys of summer by Don henley ( Training for strumming EM C G D )
Played Hot asphalt ( Em D G )
I did mistakes only in the last part of the song
I felt like i had suddenly too many fingers and i didn t know what to do with them
Played set fire to the rain by Adele ( Training for strumming pattern EM G D AM C )
Played blaze of Glory ( training for strumming on F )
I also watched 3 videos on Music Theory :
The Note Circle
Tones And Semitones
Sharps And Flats
My yousician activity for last week
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Listen to your body Deborah, no harm in easing back a bit now and then.
Yeah but I can’t help it … My body is just a huge pain all the time i stopped listening to him a long time ago , force of habit i guess
Maybe play a bit … but less … I got overwhelmed … can’t stop after starting …
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Day 71 :
I played only 33 minutes today
Trained on changing chords C D A E G ( 25 in 45 secs )
Worked on power chords
I made only one mistake at best !
I’m nearly there
Started working on a new song for picking control
3 parts , got gold on first part
Played O sole mio entirely ( Training for Picking control )
Lots of mistakes again
Played blaze of Glory ( training for strumming on F )
I watched 2 videos on Music Theory :
Note Circle: Memorise By Writing
Note Circle: Memorise Verbally
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Day 72 :
I played 43 minutes today … its more than i wanted to …
Trained on changing chords C D A E G ( 28 in 45 secs )
I did it !!!
I finally got gold in my power chord exercise !!!
Meaning i completed the lessons for movable power chords level 4 !
Trained on an exercise song for picking control
got gold on second part
Played blaze of Glory ( training for strumming on F )
I started training on kiss from a rose by Seal ( level 4 )
But its gonna takes weeks even months of practice
the road is long
Played The boys of summer by Don henley ( Training for strumming EM C G D )
Played Hot asphalt to celebrate St patrick’s day ( Em D G )
I played all these songs to train on strumming and passing chords
I completed the music theory module 1 and took the quizz 
it was fun and I learned a lot
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Day 73 :
Trained on finger stretches and crawling as a warm up
Played on Yousician for 41 minutes
Trained on changing chords C D A E G ( 23 in 45 secs )
Power chords : I tried to play the whole exercise
made mistakes but not as much as I imagined
Trained on an exercise song for picking control
got gold on third part
Played blaze of Glory ( training for strumming on F major 7 with a C bass )
I Trained on kiss from a rose by Seal ( level 4 ) at 50 % speed
( training for strumming on F major 7 with a C bass )
Played Hot asphalt ( Em D G )
Played set fire to the rain by Adele ( Training for strumming pattern EM G D AM C )
I watched 2 videos on Music Theory module 2 :
Notes In The First Five Frets
How To Read Guitar TAB
Worked a bit on the intro for Nobody to blame , i need to gain speed
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Day 74 :
Trained on finger stretches and crawling as a warm up
Played on Yousician for 41 minutes
Its my 13 week streak
Trained on changing chords C D A E G ( 28 in 45 secs )
Power chords : I tried to play the whole exercise
I made only 3 mistakes
Played The scientist by coldplay for picking control
got gold on the whole song on first try ( played part by part )
I really liked playing that song
It also means that i completed the picking control lessons grade 4
Played blaze of Glory ( training for strumming on F major 7 with a C bass )
I Trained on kiss from a rose by Seal ( level 4 ) at 60 % speed
( training for strumming on F major 7 with a C bass )
I watched 3 videos on Music Theory module 2 :
Reading Chord Box Diagrams
Your Own Chord Book
Fretboard Diagrams For Scales
At this stage I feel like I need to start grade 2 in JG
Worked a bit on the intro for Nobody to blame like a minute or two
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Day 75 :
Trained on finger stretches and crawling as a warm up
Played on Yousician for 47 minutes
Trained on changing chords C G Am F major 7 ( 22 in 45 secs )
Power chords : whole exercise for practice
Played The scientist by coldplay for picking control
I try to play to whole song
Played blaze of Glory ( training for strumming on F major 7 with a C bass )
I Trained on kiss from a rose by Seal ( level 4 ) at 60 % speed
( training for strumming on F major 7 with a C bass )
Played Losing my religion ( training for strumming on F major 7 with a C bass )
way too many mistakes
started knowledge level 4 :
Trained on arpeggio Major and minor in popular keys and a workout to learn the root notes on the neck
I started grade 2 in JG :
I watched the video : the stuck 3&4 chords
In the weeks to come its going to be a lot of training on F and passing the new chords
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I haven’t done much of grade 2 but I think I saw that video because that’s the technique Wonderwall uses… I started that song before I was ready for it (I say that in hindsight) and it took me months get that strumming pattern up to speed! Music snobs roll their eyes at that song but it’s not easy
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well , there’s a difference between listening to a song and playing it
I hate Adele’s songs but playing set fire to the rain was huge fun
Same for Coldplay , im’ not a fan at all but playing it is sheer fun
There aren t many choises of songs to chose from on module 8 …
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Fair comment although I draw the line when it comes to learning songs by Adele 
that’s what i thought too before trying it 
I had a quick look and the songs that goes with the the stuck 3&4 chords lesson does not suit me
I hate Suzanne Vega , Greenday and Oasis …( and oasis is only available on the app ?! )
Guitar learning should be fun so I’ll skip those songs
I’ll only work on them with the perfect fast change practice
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Day 76 :
Trained on finger stretches and crawling as a warm up
Played on Yousician for 37 minutes
Trained on changing chords C G Am F major 7 ( 22 in 45 secs )
Played The scientist by coldplay for picking control
I focused on the part where i often make mistakes
Played blaze of Glory ( training for strumming on F major 7 with a C bass )
I Trained on kiss from a rose by Seal ( level 4 ) at 60 % speed
( training for strumming on F major 7 with a C bass )
Played Losing my religion ( training for strumming on F major 7 with a C bass )
grade 2 in JG :
I trained on the stuck 3&4 chords
The F chord is a nightmare !
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F definitely is a step up from the other chords!
My approach (and I don’t if this helps at all) was to learn F in isolation, just put my fingers in place and try to get it sound decent like that. Take my hand off then try again.
The next stage was song specific. The first song I wanted to play with F was Hurt by Johnny Cash with a Am to F transition. For me, my middle finger is the important one for F. If I get that in place then everything else follows (not always quickly but is improving). So with that Am to F, the most important bit (for me) is knowing that my middle finger has to move across 1 string (same fret, D to G string). My other fingers pivot round it. House of the Rising Sun has D to F which involves moving my middle finger across 2 strings (same fret). With a similar approach I can do C to F and G to F now as well. This has all taken time and I’m still working on speed and consistency. Maybe none of the above is useful, no problem, we all learn differently. Just know it takes time and with perseverance you’ll get there 
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and its only the F major 7 …
yeah thats what i did
an exercise for a minute just passing it
that’s also why i changed the passing chords to C G Am F major 7
I have few problems on blaze of Glory since its slow
but when its getting faster wow its becomes a catastrophe XD
I play different songs with an F with different rythm to get used to it + changing chords exercises
I should try to play while standing up its going to be a catastrophe too
the angle of the strings is so different , its like learning it all again
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I’ve only tried to stand and play a couple of times just out of curiosity and it went about as well as you’d expect it would for a beginner guitarist! That’s something for another day (or year) in my schedule
Purely by chance, “Hurt” was a good song for learning F as well because it’s not a fast tempo (I say by chance because I didn’t know that when I decided it was a song I wanted to learn. It had other challenges, like arpeggios but I picked them up more quickly than the F chord
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arpeggios are easy compared to the F chord !
my curiosity is : will it help relieve the pain in my left shoulder
its going to be easier for the left hand , harder for the right hand
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2 interesting songs to add to my playlist 
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Nice 
As soon as I heard Hurt by Johnny Cash I knew I had to learn it. There’s 2 distinct sections, playing arpeggios on Am, C and D in a loop then a section with some chords that’s easy to memorise and just needs 4 down strums per bar to sound pretty good. I suppose making a clean transition between the sections from one style to the other and back is the other thing to master.
The bonus is that it’s easy to go from playing along to the recording in an app to playing along to the original recording.
Lots of new chords to learn in the same time
