Dan’s Guitar Learning Journal

Tonight I wrote some down some tips that I think are highly useful for beginners such as myself (spot the fallacy). Most of them are just common sense but as I am so often reminded common sense just isn’t that common anymore.

The 15 Commandments of Learning Guitar

As for practise I went through my current practise routine:

Warm Up
F Chord Practise (only basic chord I haven’t mastered holding)

Shared Finger Principle Chord Changes

• G to Cadd9 (I can do this strumming one measure per chord)
• D to G
• G to Cadd9 to D
• G to Em
• Em to C
• C to Am
• Dm to G

Clustered Finger Principle Chord Changes

• E to Am
• Em to Am
• A to D
• C to D
• A to Em
• Dm to E
• Am to Dm

Slide Principle Chord Changes

• E to D
• A ro Dm
• G to Em to C to D

More F Chord practise (I can do it!)
FInish up with more work on long progressions

At some point I will explain the Shared and Clustered Finger principles and the Slide Principal, but not tonight.