Time spent learning/practising: 54.25hrs Status: Learning barre chords & theory I logged an hour and a quarter today, although only 35 minutes of that was actually practising (still can’t do barre chords), the rest was spent studying a book on guitar music theory which I bought off Amazon (a Hal Leonard book). That was really [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 53hrs Status: Learning barre chords I got back into it today and did 30 minutes, I now know all the major scales and how many sharps or flats they have, and I have played all the 6 and 5 string barre chords cleanly at least once, but they weren’t easy! So I [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 52.5hrs Status: Learning barre chords I got 30 minutes practice in today, and I managed to get some of the 5 string barre chords to sound ok, but I am struggling on the B barre chord, that needs my fingers to squash up together which I couldn’t do for the A non-barre chord [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 52hrs Status: Learning barre chords I did lesson 8 today which was barre chords on the A string and key signatures. I now know how to recognise what the key signature is… but I don’t know what significance a key signature has on anything in a song… I was quietly confident about [...]

Time spent learning/practising: 51.25hrs Status: Learning barre chords I got back into it today and did 34 minutes to make up for being short on my last practice. I managed to do the barre chords again, but not consistently, at first I couldn’t do any but the G, then it clicked later on and I [...]