Hi Everbody,
Looks like a lot of people are doing a learning log let me try to resume my journey so far:
I already explain this in the Old dogs section, so I’ll just say that I’m 49, I’m originally from Lisbon, Portugal but I live in Switzerland near Zurich. I went to a local shop and bought a Duwina acoustic guitar. Duwina is a family company from Czech Republic, that makes really good acoustic guitars.
I started from scratch 10 weeks ago… but it looks like 6 months already.
I started with 15…20min a day and after 2 weeks, but when calluses formed I started playing 3x 30min a day. Nowadays I do minimum 3x30min a day but somedays I do a bit more. If I am a bit more stressed from work at the end of the day, I just play after dinner until I am tired. This can be anything from 30 minutes to 1 hour and half.
First few Modules were really hard. I remember that D chord being impossible, and the C wasn’t any easier.
I am now in Module 12, and here goes a list of stuff I know and how much I know about them.
Good Chords that can play and change to and from them without looking: G,Em,Am,C,E
Almost good. I can play but the changes are not always perfect: A, Dm:
The A was always a weak point. The top joint of my index finger is very overused and if I try Justin’s way of learning the A I get a lot of pain after some time, and because my hands are quite big I am forced to do the A with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th finger. On the Dm I just don’t usually play many songs with it.
Stuck 3&4 - I learn to play the I wish you were here with the Riff, so I get to play some of this chords on a daily basis. It’s part of my little music book.
F - I was one of the luck ones with big hands that got the F right after a few days. from C to F I can do 60 changes per minute, from Am to F around 45 but from G to F they are still far from perfect so it’s still a work in progress. I try to play as many musics as possible with the F to force my way into it. House of the rising sun, Hurt and Had you ever seen it rain. Plus I do a lot of playing with the C Chord Progressions that Justin’s teached a few modules ago.
The strumming was a bit of a struggle. This was probably where I invested more time in the first few weeks. That old faithful beat the hell out of me. I am also a dedicated marathon runner, and in the first weeks I run counting my steps with the left foot(1 to 4) and the “and” with the right foot like a metronome to simulate the strumming pattern. Down, Down, up, up, down. Still strumming and singing is a struggle. I usually sing with just down-strums and only when it’s more solid I sing with the correct strumming pattern. But my brain is still struggling to multitask.
Usually I have a few things in progress from the previous module. Currently I have the Sus2/4 from last module while I am also working on the Power Chords. And the of course the Fu%çZ&%&ç/% finger-style happy birthday is still on my daily routine.
The musics I am currently actively playing are:
Wish you were here
Hurt
House of the Rising Sun (pick and fingerpicking version)
Everybody hurts (fingerpicking)
I know I might be going a bit fast but I am enjoying so much the process that I just want to practice and learn more. I am not much of a campfire player and being introvert at heart, music is something very intimate to me. So I only play musics that I really like, and that is not very easy at this level. Because of this I spend a lot of time doing improvisations with the chord progressions and playing notes from the scale on top of the them as Justin suggested.
I hope to keep you guys posted on my next steps 
, that might eventually include an electric baby in the next few months.
Cheers,
Pedro