Dan’s Guitar Learning Journal

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I changed my routine today. To better measure my progress I’ve added a proficiency column. The range I use is from the easy end, quarter notes, one note per beat (D D D D), then to eight notes (Strum one or two) with two measures per chord, then eight notes with one measure per chord [...]

No entry last night because I was too busy entertaining friends… no really I was… but I did find time to make some improvements to the blog. Dans Guitar Learning Journal is now mobile thanks to
Word Press Mobile by Andy Moore. I bet that was the feature you were waiting for!
On the practise front I [...]

Well… I got slightly distracted tonight, watching the ‘Lost Boys’ in all its cheesy eighties vampire lovefest glory. However I did manage to work on my long progression skills and the F Chord. I also started reading the Guitar TAB Edition of the Muse Hullabaloo Sountrack and felt slightly overwhelmed at what I didn’t know!
If [...]

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 [...]

Tonight I focused on my most hated chord. The dreaded F! It’s only really hard because I’ve chosen the semi bar chord way of holding it.
First finger on the B string/C note/1st fret and high E string/F note/1st fret
Second finger on the G string/A note/2nd Fret
Third finger on the D string/F note/3rd fret
Before I practise [...]