20% Blog #7 March 27, 2014

What I have learned from playing the guitar is that it is hard work sometimes. Especially when you don't always have someone there to encourage you to practice and practice. A good way to motivate yourself to practice playing the guitar is to just think about the girls. You just have to keep critiquing yourself and saying "Am I good enough to play in front of someone yet?" Once you feel you are ready then you should definitely have a pretty good sense of the strings and how the guitar works. Another big motivator for me was that I knew that if I practice hard enough I can have the potential to be a famous guitarist and come up with my own songs one day.This should encourage many more people to play the guitar, because as everyone knows the guitar always gets the girls. I have also started to try and make myself comfortable with actual guitar notes so when I am not reading tabs I can make sense of a guitar song that written and played the way it was meant to be.

20% Blog #6 March 26, 2014

I have been practicing very little lately and this is because I have been busy with homework. The days that I do practice though I am really starting to get the song down and I really am starting to love the guitar. On the side I have been practicing separate songs like Everlong by the "Foo Fighters". The separate songs really help with practicing different styles of playing the guitar. For example for this song Everlong, you have to keep strumming and you only push down on the frets when you want to play a note. This also requires a D-chord. Because most of the songs I am learning require a D-chord it is easier to play them because I already know what I am trying to play. My fingers are pretty much used to the shape of a D-chord which is why I am able to play the song Everlong so easily and simply.

20% Blog #2, February 2014

My next step in learning to play the guitar will be to learn the chorus of "Hey there Delilah " which is a song by the " Plain White Tees". I have been practicing the intro lately with a simple D-chord that goes with the song. However lately i have not been practicing enough because i haven't gotten much of a break from homework. But i will definitely have the chorus down by next week because i will be practicing it for a few hours a day. By practicing a few hours a day i will gradually begin to get better. Another good way to know if I'm good is if I feel like I am good enough to play in front of someone by it sounding good. I feel that my progress is coming along very nicely and i am progressing very fast. I also believe that my time management is very efficient and it works for my kind of schedule.

20% Blog#5 March 7, 2014

   This week I have been practicing very much on my electric guitar. The reason for this is because I have had more free time now, which lets me get more practice time in. I have been trying to learn the main riff of Hey There Delilah. The Main riff is the middle part of the song also called the chorus. The difficult part about the chorus is that you have to switch to about four different chords. Also you have to switch fast which means that I have to practice even more to get the feel of the strings. My friend and teacher Eric has been helping me very much with his lessons I have been able to pick up the guitar much faster than if i was on my own. He said that it took him about two years to get to where he is now. I believe that I will be able to get to that skill level in a shorter amount of time.