Date: 19-February-2008, 13:07 Subj: Practice Makes Permanent Filter:    Public

I'm proud to relate that I have been practicing with my guitar solidly every single day for at least 20-40 minutes a day.

What am I better at?

Can't really say. As it goes, I'm going to suck in general for the next 2 years. *smiles*

However, there are a few things that have shown grand improvement:

Chords - I'm remembering them, and have to refer to the chart less. In my memory bank are the following: C, G, D, A, Em, & F. Oh, and Barre E.
My F chord is painful, but I'm trying. G used to suck massively too.
I practice others, but I can call those chords to mind immediately.

I can work through the 1st scale (I). I do this thing with a barre E and the scale and closing with the E. It's fairly full of suck, but at least I can work through it.

My picking patterns have been getting a bit better. While going through one of them I sped it up for a bit and grinned a bit as I made it through maybe 4 times before buzzing a higher string with my nail. So, fewer fat finger movements when picking is an improvement.

I played through a song, with chords, which inspired me to concentrate a bit more on my strumming technique. (It sucks worse than my picking.)

I can tell when a string is out of tune and can bring it back "fairly well."

So there's my self assessment. I'm better than I was, considering how awful I am. ^_^

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User:	(Anonymous)
Date:	19-February-2008, 22:18 (UTC)
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I admire you for being able to pick up your interests and just pursue them like that. I've been hemming and hawwing over trying my hand at painting for years now ... I need to get off my butt, get some supplies and just try it out :D

~Cassandra

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