Time spent learning/practising: 32hrs Status: Learning strumming & chords I did 45 minutes today and started to get a grip on the change from C to A to F# which is in the ‘Banana Boat’ song, that is still pretty tricky though. The chord exericises went better too, but I don’t have any kind of [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 31.25hrs Status: Learning strumming & chords It has been about 5 days since I’ve done any practising as I haven’t had any time alone so people don’t hear me mangling the strumming! I thought I’d be rusty, but in fact it went better than ever, the chords were clean, I understood the [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 30.5hrs Status: Learning chords I had my first practice of the new chords and the strumming patterns today and it was hard! Plus the exercises use strange note configurations, so I usually practice solo, but I think I’m going to have to use the workshops on the DVD to understand how the [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 30hrs Status: Learning new chords I did lesson 6 today which introduced a barre chord, that is hard! You have to use the tip of your index finger to cover two fingers, which is really unnatural and hurts my finger at the moment, but I am sure I will get used to [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 29.5hrs Status: Learning chords Today the chords just seemed to click which was good, my fingers seemed to be in the right place and so they went smoothly. I managed to do one song through twice without any mistakes at the middle speed on the jam track, then I looked up some [...]