Lesson Three Tuesday 22nd January 2013

My third lesson seemed to come round so quick. I had been practising a lot and I could feel some of my finger tips hardening a bit now as well as upsetting the hearing of most of the dogs in my street.

We went through the cords that I have been practising but I still can’t get them to sound right. One or more of my fingers would be touching something or other so as we go through all the strings you would hear at least one thud instead of the crisp note it is supposed to be.

This lesson I added a couple more cords for me to learn and constantly play flat. These are F major 7 and G. These two are there so I can exercise my fourth little finger and G is used in a lot of songs so needs to be looked at early.

I then went over the rhythm exercise again which was getting better due to my constant practising that the local dogs are not happy about, but my timing was slow and sometimes I would pause as I had to remember if it was an up or down stroke. But at least I was not mistakenly hitting the strings when I was not wanting to.

I am starting to remember where my fingers need to go for some of the cords (A, D and E) but they still sound nowhere like a note. Better make sure the Mrs does not get rid of her ear plugs just yet.