Time spent learning/practising: 17.5hrs Status: Trying to move between notes cleanly I struggled to get any time away from people to practice today, I’m not quite at the level of playing in front of people, I think after 15 repetitions of Yankee Doodle they’d be a bit fedup, and I can do that many in [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 17hrs Status: Trying to move between notes cleanly I had yesterday off but did a good 30 minutes today. I can move between the notes quite well now so that is definite progress, but I need to make sure I do it cleanly, there is still some buzzing as I move and [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 16.5hrs Status: Trying to read the notes fluidly I did a full hour today and for some reason by the end of it I only got up to the stage with Yankee Doodle that I did yesterday… I can play it through fluidly a few times, then I mess up and forget [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 15.5hrs Status: Trying to learn to read the notes I forgot to say that when I practised yesterday then I didn’t write in the notes above the new exercises and songs I had. I was a lot slower and it is really hard to try and decipher the notes while trying to [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 14.5hrs Status: Trying to move between all 4 strings Today was fun! I now have loads more to learn as I did lesson 3 which teaches about eighth notes and that little bar between them, and then I learnt about the 3rd and 4th string notes, and I am trying to learn [...]