Dan’s Guitar Learning Journal

Well, I have been very slack at updating my journal, that damn real life thing keeps interrupting me. Not so slack that I haven’t kept up my practise though. I’ve altered my practise routine slightly by adding in a song to practise. Stand By Me by Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. So my practise routine looks like this now:

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!)
Practise Stand by Me - C (2 Measures) to A (2 Measures) to F (1 Measure) to G (1 Measure) to C (2 Measures)
FInish up with more work on long progressions

Here are my first attempts at Stand By Me