It was a bad day with splitting headaches and real pain in the right arm, had 2 medical appointments too, the physiotherapist helped releave the arm pain a bit but i still wanted to train anyway
Trained on changing chords 5 minutes
Trained and finger stretches and crawling 3 times
Trained on strumming machine at 113 bmp old faithfull
Trained on strumming on horse with no name but was bad at it tonight
Trained on strumming on nobody to blame
Played what’s up ( no strumming ) module 6
Played wish you were here ( no strumming ) module 6
did a recording attempt
No, I understand what you mean with “no strumming”. But Mac, you are strumming, it’s just that you are strumming only on beat one or when a chord changes (didn’t listen that closele and count along)
As others have said above, I admire your discipline. Hope it will be a better day today
Sorry to hear you had a bad day Deborah but admiration that you carried on practicing. Don’t forget though, sometimes you need to put your body first. Don’t feel guilty about easing up now and then or even taking a day off.
oh its a pain that will never go away thats why i have physiotherapy twice a week
sometimes its just worse than others
10 years ago i could barely hold a pen , now i can start learning the guitar so its already a great improvement !
true !
but writing : "not following the strumming pattern on this one " is a bit long XD
maybe i should just write beat 1
Trained on changing chords focusing only a G to C and D to C for 5 minutes
Trained on finger stretches and crawling 3 times
Trained on riffs ( Cream and Nirvana ) for 2 minutes
Trained on strumming machine at 113 bpm old faithfull for 3 minutes
Trained on strumming on Horse with no name at 113 bmp
Trained on strumming on Nobody to blame
Trained on strumming on Lay down sally
Played What’s up ( Strum beat 1 )
Played wish you were here ( Strum beat 1 )
Trained on yousician for 12 minutes
( I trained on strumming on Lost on you by LP and trained on licks on Wonderful tonight by Clapton )
Trained on changing chords for 5 minutes
Trained on finger stretches and crawling 3 times
Trained on strumming on Horse with no name at 113 bpm
Trained on strumming on nobody to blame
Trained on strumming on Lay down sally
Played what’s up ( Strum beat 1 )
Played wish you were here ( Strum beat 1 )
Trained on musician for 22 minutes
( I trained on strumming on Lost on you by LP and trained on licks on Wonderful tonight by Clapton )
I finally succeeded in playing the 7 parts of wonderful tonight without making any chord or string mistake !!!
last time i recorded just a small part of the song
this time it was the full song , basic melody in licks ( no chords / strumming )
the song was divided in 7 parts , i learned them spearately and then tried when i felt ready , i tried to play the 7 parts together
The tempo was not fully correct but the target of this exercise was to learn to use the fretboard quickly without watching it and picking without watching the strings
my fingers were moving on their own !
I can try another song now
Trained on changing chords for 5 minutes
Trained on finger stretches and crawling 3 times
Trained on strumming on Horse with no name at full speed
Trained on strumming on nobody to blame
Played Edge of seventeen ( Strum beat 1 )
Played what’s up ( Strum beat 1 )
Played wish you were here ( Strum beat 1 )
Trained on musician for 21 minutes
Trained on lost on you by LP for strumming
Trained a shaolin master for picking
Trained on dream on by aerosmith for strumming and changing chords
the song has a b5 in it , its new to me
gotta work on it
Trained on changing chords for 5 minutes focusing on D to C C to G G to D
Trained on finger stretches and crawling 3 times
Trained on strumming on Horse with no name at 113 bpm
Trained on strumming on nobody to blame
This time i changed to strumming patern to down down up down down up
it was a complete catastrophe so : practice practice pratice !
Played Edge of seventeen ( Strum beat 1 )
Played what’s up ( Strum beat 1 )
Played wish you were here ( Strum beat 1 )
I feel a little more comfortable with C but not with G
still need a slow pace to play G
Trained on musician for 15 minutes
Trained on lost on you by LP for strumming
Trained a shaolin master for picking
Trained on dream on by aerosmith for strumming and changing chords
I attented the Motivation club tonight , i learned some nice stuff
Trained on changing chords for 2 minutes
i can pass 27 chords between C G Am Em in 45 sec
Trained on finger stretches and crawling 3 times
Trained on strumming on nobody to blame
Its not easy for a beginner to strum the last up so i removed it
its a funny exercise to work on another pattern on the song
Played Edge of seventeen ( Strum beat 1 )
Played what’s up ( Strum beat 1 ) tried to strum a bit on it
Played wish you were here ( Strum beat 1 )
Trained on musician for 25 minutes
Trained a shaolin master for picking
that one this this day where nothing works …
Trained on dream on by aerosmith for strumming and changing chords
I reduced the pace of the song to 80% of the rythm to practice on it
Hi Deborah ,I’ve been away from the Community for a couple of months so missed your first post and very frequent updates!
You’ve really been bitten by the guitar thing huh? And good for you, I love seeing and reading about your enthusiasm, energy (despite the challenges you have described) and progress, it’s a special time and to know you are making music is the biggest reward.
i just wanted to say “hi” and give you further encouragement that you’re doing great, but above all keep on enjoying yourself, guitar is the best therapy
Trained on changing chords for 5 minutes
i can pass 25 chords between C G D EM in 45 sec ( kinda slow )
Trained on finger stretches and crawling 3 times
Trained on strumming on nobody to blame
I started by following the pattern on the strumming machine ( metronome )
Played the song
Went back to the strumming machine to train on changing chords between A D and E following the metronome for 5 minutes
Played Edge of seventeen ( Strum beat 1 )
i still have some trouble with passing from D to C
Played what’s up
I strummed on it this time
I start to understand how to strum on this song
My G must start to get better
Played wish you were here ( Strum beat 1 )
Trained on musician for 23 minutes
Trained a shaolin master for picking
i still can t gold this one …
Trained on dream on by aerosmith for strumming and changing chords
did no mistakes at 80%
I will try at 90 % of the rythm tomorrow
Yesterday was a day off so i used that free time to change my strings
some new ernie ball’s
I wasnt working today so i played a little bit more
warm up on a very basic melody of Should’ve been a cow boy by Toby Keith
Trained on changing chords between C G Am Em ( 23 in 45 secs )
Trained on strumming and changing chords on Nobody to blame with the pattern down down up down down up at 70 bpm
Tried some new songs from module 6 :
mad world
heart of gold
this year s love
how to save a life
I realised that im still bending my ring finger on G so i gotta train more and find the right grasp of the neck and position of the wrist
Played what’s up ( strum beat 1 )
Played wish you were here ( strum beat 1 )
Played on Yousician for 40 minutes
Played Lost on you by LP
Trained on Dream by Aerosmith
Played shaolin master , Still not mastering it
I wasnt working today so i played a little bit more again
warm up on a basic melody on yousician
i so wanted to gold it that i played it at least 6 times
Trained on changing chords between C G Am Em ( 26 in 45 secs )
Trained on strumming and changing chords on Nobody to blame with the pattern down down up down down up at 70 bpm ( practice for forcing changing chords )
Played heart of gold by Neil Young
Played what’s up ( strum beat 1 )
Played wish you were here ( strum beat 1 )
Played on Yousician for 45 minutes
Played Lost on you by LP ( practice to strum on the C chord )
Trained on Dream on by Aerosmith ( practice to strum on the C chord )
I finally gold it !!
But since im still not happy with the sound I ll still work on it ( some strings buzzing or C chord badly shaped )
My hand is so tired that i did not try to play shaolin master
Still trying to figure out how to play my G chord with the pinky instead of the ring finger
i saw a woman playing it with her middle finger , ring finger and pinky
its quite a stretch !!!
Trained on changing chords between C G Am Em ( 26 in 45 secs )
Trained on strumming and changing chords on Nobody to blame with the pattern down down up down down up at 70 bpm ( practice for forcing changing chords )
it’s getting better
Played heart of gold by Neil Young
Played what’s up ( strum beat 1 )
Played edge of seventeen ( strum beat 1 )
Played wish you were here ( strum beat 1 )
Played on Yousician for 17 minutes
Played Lost on you by LP ( practice to strum on the C chord ) twice
Played on Dream on by Aerosmith ( practice to strum on the C chord ) twice
I lowered the speed at 90%
Played Shaolin master ( practice for picking )
I finally gold it !!!
I played the 3 parts together with no mistakes !!!
Tomorrow i can start another exercise
So far i can play : A Am E EM D Dm C G
I can strum on A Am E Em D i start training on strumming on C its not as clear as the others yet
I can only strum on beat 1 for G
I can play simple melodies and pick strings
I kind of suck on power chords but B5 is coming together
Now? 
Was it so that Yousician teaches those quite in the beginning already? So have you played power chords before?
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