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. ^_^