Practice Session Timings: 10:00pm to 12:30pm
Total hours today: 2.5
I did not practice guitar in school today. At home I started practice after dinner at exactly 10pm. I decided to perfect the first tune Joshua sir taught me and after a couple of perfect run through's I decided to revise the chords I knew. I found this useful chart that showed the chord diagrams of the most basic beginner chords. Here it is:
After this I decided to add more chords to my mental chord library. There were two more chords that were considered basic: the F chord and B chord. I decided to learn the F chord first and went to YouTube to see a tutorial. The first link was a video called, "The Dreaded F Chord", by a person called JustinGuitar. The title was pretty intimidating and as I watched the video I realized why it was "dreaded". The F chord required the guitarist to press all six strings with one finger (index). At first I thought it was going to be a piece of cake but as I tried it I realized that it was almost impossible. The chord used all four fingers on your left hand. My index finger did not have the strength to push all the six strings down and while I tried to apply all my force with my index, my other fingers became even more harder to control. The F chord diagram:
After 30 minutes of epic failure and frustration I decided to stop for the day, but I still had a nagging feeling that I hadn't accomplished anything today.
So instead of stopping I decided to learn another simple song. I chose 'Animals' by Maroon 5, and searched YouTube for a good video. I came across this video by a dude called martysongs, (Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aK17DLi17k), and he taught how to play along to the song in a really simple way by only using four chords: E minor, D, C and G, and I knew all of them so the first part was easy. The second part however was the strumming part, which I found extremely hard for the first ten minutes but surprisingly I got the hang of it fairly quickly and I was matching Marty's speed after just twenty minutes. Unfortunately I had to mute the strings, (half press them so they didn't make any sound), because it was 12 o'clock at night and I didn't want angry neighbors knocking on my door.
At the end of today's practice session I felt great, especially because I managed to pick up the strumming part of the song easily.
Total no. of hours put in: 23hrs
Total hours today: 2.5
I did not practice guitar in school today. At home I started practice after dinner at exactly 10pm. I decided to perfect the first tune Joshua sir taught me and after a couple of perfect run through's I decided to revise the chords I knew. I found this useful chart that showed the chord diagrams of the most basic beginner chords. Here it is:
The chord diagrams of G, D, C, A and E
As you can see, the first finger has to press all the strings from 1 to 6.
After 30 minutes of epic failure and frustration I decided to stop for the day, but I still had a nagging feeling that I hadn't accomplished anything today.
So instead of stopping I decided to learn another simple song. I chose 'Animals' by Maroon 5, and searched YouTube for a good video. I came across this video by a dude called martysongs, (Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aK17DLi17k), and he taught how to play along to the song in a really simple way by only using four chords: E minor, D, C and G, and I knew all of them so the first part was easy. The second part however was the strumming part, which I found extremely hard for the first ten minutes but surprisingly I got the hang of it fairly quickly and I was matching Marty's speed after just twenty minutes. Unfortunately I had to mute the strings, (half press them so they didn't make any sound), because it was 12 o'clock at night and I didn't want angry neighbors knocking on my door.
At the end of today's practice session I felt great, especially because I managed to pick up the strumming part of the song easily.
Total no. of hours put in: 23hrs
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