JK, no doubt I do need to learn more songs. I’m writing down your song suggestions and I WILL put them to practice (that’s me telling myself to do it, basically).
I fully agree, there’s more to songs than just chords, but I guess my expectation was that the little fun techniques will be introduced and then a song will be suggested or featured in a module lesson to practice that technique. At least, that’s what I’ve been looking forward to happening in the lessons, and without going back and looking through every lesson so far, I don’t remember how many are set up that way. It just hasn’t occurred to me much to go find songs on my own because, well, most of the time I don’t know what songs contain what concepts, so even “learning songs” is really very nebulous and its not so easy to go pick them out. The few times I’ve tried it, I found the tuning was a drop tuning or something like that, so I just sort of gave up. BUT I’m not making excuses, I need to do it, no bones about it. I say, it’s immensely helpful when someone gives a song suggestion that’s good for certain techniques- which you’ve just done, and I’m really glad about it. I’ll also go back through each module and see what songs were suggested in the additional reading under the video.
I even asked my very talented guitarist friend one time- how does one learn songs?.. Is looking them up on YT and trying to repeat what you hear how people do it? He said- I don’t know, I guess…when I was learning there were no internet videos to learn by, and I can’t remember how I learned! Haha.
A couple of the rock songs you mentioned were the ones I didn’t attempt in the app, because they looked hard, haha. Oh man. But no excuses, hopefully there’s Justin lessons on them, and I’ll look them up.
On Wish You Were Here, I have tried the hammer ons, yes, but they barely ring out no matter how hard I hit the string. I’ll keep trying though.
On the blues stuff, maybe I should just go ahead and get into it. I was wary of going through the lessons too fast, as well as being not chuffed about having new chords to learn. I’ve been sitting on power chords with some scales practice for about 6 weeks now (practicing simple chord progressions in songs that are much too easy). Along with better songs for the rock stuff, maybe its just time. Thanks for the encouragement there.
For going over all my points and responding with detail- thank you. This is the kind of conversation that motivates me. Specific song suggestions, and insight on how much effort it will take…that’s all really great and super duper helpful, I suspect to a great many of us.
Edit to add- after looking up Justin’s song lessons for what you suggested, most of them are categorized as Gr 3 or 4, so no wonder I haven’t given them a go yet. Not that that should matter, and I think that’s one thing I need to learn- there’s no reason not to go ahead and try them. And if I feel like I need to be in Gr 3 in order to try them, there’s no reason why I shouldn’t move on and get there, I suppose.
) anyway she holds her guitar classical style because it’s comfortable and she can still wear a dress playing. That said, I’ll be showing her that Gabriella Quevedo video also just because it’s nice to have options right