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Hi all never posted a learning log before so hope this qualifies I started this a while ago skipped grade 1 as I knew most of it from previous attempts worked my way through mods 8,9,10 and now at 11 been here a while trying to learn happy birthday (coincidence its my 70th today ug how did I get so old) anyway looking through my song book which is a guitar tab manuscript book I have a lot of songs I can play badly so decided to relearn them properly and try to get them correct this year and not to add any more well that did not last long, already added more but that is it no more, the new ones are Waterloo sunset in E some barre chords,Telestar,sorrow (Bowie) picture of you (Joe Brown) Atomic (Blondie like the riff) dock of the bay,old time rock and roll (quo version) mess of blues (quo version) Brown eyed girl, Knockin on heavens door, heartbreak hotel plus the lead riff can play it but needs a bit of refining, you never can tell chuck berry and coz I luv you slade.
Hopefully by the years end I will have completed my plan I intend to keep working through the lessons and will move on to mod 12 now and put happy birthday and Oh Xmas tree in my learning plan.I also intend to try to play some of the easier songs just using E shape A shape Em shape & Am shape barre chords.Wish me luck !

Well not adding new songs did not last long just sneaked in the theme to the good bad & ugly also as im learning cocaine and you really got me they will also go into my song book and just found a great tutorial for jailhouse rock just played it through not too difficult as it is power / barre chords it is part of my learning curve on mod 12 !!! (well that`s my excuse) Not playing much due to a fall in my garden hit a load of flower pots most were plastic and collapsed except one that hit me in the ribs RH side that was a pottery one ouch !!

Update

Well all of the above more or less went out the window, two weeks ago got asked to our new neighbours (young couple) BBQ and bring your guitar we`ll have a singsong that’s when I realised, I did not know enough if any singalong songs managed to make some excuse and got out of it
so new plan to learn 10 songs and play without chord sheets \ books
they are as follows

The joker
Maggie may
let it be
The wanderer Dion version
the wanderer status quo version
Heros
knocking on heaven’s door
Be bop a Lula
I saw her standing there
that`ll be the day

I suppose technically that’s 9 as the wanderer is duplicated so far, I can play most of them just need more practice to get it clean it was Robert Redriver monkey that got me inspired to do this so thanks Robert.

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Happy Birthday John. Going back over songs is always a good idea

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Happy birthday John hope you have a great day and keep up with the playing cheers Hec

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Hello John, Happy Birthday… :partying_face: :bouquet:

And good for you going back to old songs :sunglasses:, in recent weeks I have also (more than usual) stopped playing new songs (so not completely) and started playing old songs better, often only with the extra things added … that for me is where the big fun can be found…

Greetings

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Thanks all for your good wishes

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happy birthday :partying_face:

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Good start to a Log, John, and sounds like you have a good plan, too!

Happy day after your birthday, hope it was fun.

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Happy belated birthday :tada:

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Thanks Rebecca I understand you are a grade 2 as well how did you find it i am moving to mod 12 any tips for future lessons

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cheers Joe

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Sorry for the late reply. I’ve been shoveling a lot of snow!

I had a lot of trouble with power chords, maybe because i had a lot of trouble with the F barre chord. Suddenly, instead of fighting to get that B string to ring out i now had to mute the 3 higher strings. I must have fought with them for 3 weeks, then gave up. I practice them now and then, and they mostly sound okay, but haven’t mastered moving between the 6th and 5th strings.

I did well memorizing the A minor pentatonic scale and that will be very useful on Module 13’s Blues solo lesson.

Palm muting I’ve barely used yet it songs so didn’t spend a lot of time on it.

The Sandman riff was hard and i didn’t know the song so gave up again. I’ll try again eventually.

Haven’t tried writing riffs or songs or anything so nothing to report. I’m not feeling very creative i guess?

As for distortion, i don’t even remember that lesson, ill have to watch it again. Except for practicing power chords i only play “clean”.

I’ve got lots to practice in consolidation!

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Well thanks for that I find power chords quite easy only tried the Am scale once its not too bad I also play clean most of the times and done a bit of palm muting although not that good so hopefully shouldn’t be too bad. good luck shoveling the snow its wet windy and muddy here in the south west of England.