Hi Michael,
I think you have a few years on me - not lot, but clearly some!
I have been using Justin’s lessons since about July 2021, and got first guitar April 2021. progress with modules has fallen off a bit as I am trying to pick up some of the shortcomings I notice due to “graduating” myself before mastery. I generally think this is ok as long as I am willing to go back and pick up the rough spots.
I don’t have trouble with lyrics so much - I seem to have learned them in my youth, even the songs about a generation before my time. However, if I start to LISTEN to the song, I start to forget what to PLAY, and that suggests I really don’t know what I am playing yet. I have a lot of trouble with patterns of notes/chords that do not have well defined groupings. I seem to do ok remembering some songs, like Asturias (just the beginning section so far), where there are a lot of repeating themes, but something that takes 16 bars to get back around to repeating looks like it will just take the brute-force method of repetition.
I enjoyed your Learning Log. I had looked at it when it was new and fun to see your recent notes as you progress!
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