Time spent learning/practising: 45.75hrs
Status: Learning major scales, barre chords and songs

This feels like the most structured and productive practice I’ve had in ages now. Instead of just trying to change chords faster by blind repetition, I used the principles here: http://www.guitarnoise.com/lesson/the-glue-of-repetition/ to structure my increase in speed. So now I got up to 100bpm using 4 beats per change, I haven’t found my ceiling yet, I will find that tomorrow, then I can work at slowly increasing it over time, but at least I have a way to measure my progress now. I also found out my thinner plectrum is much better for strumming, but on the barre chords I didn’t have any success, not when having my other fingers in position on their notes, so that still needs work, but I am getting better at things day by day.

Steve

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