Lesson Twelve Tuesday 26th March

Tonight's lesson I went with  the same guitar as last week so that was a good start to things. The teacher tuned the guitar for me as I am scared to tune it after what happened with my other guitar. It seems as if the strings have settled down a bit now and that the tuning is sounding a lot better (well in the teachers hands it does).

Once the guitar was tuned which sounded a lot better than last week I started the first exercises which was the REM tune “Everybody Hurts”. I went through where I had got to which was mainly doing the D and G then the Em and A.

 I needed to link these cords together and for it to flow so I spent a bit of time doing this. Sometimes it would not sound too bad and I can see the benefit of it for getting my fingers in the right place for a cord. My D is coming along and is getting more crisp but I am still having trouble with the G.

The teacher added in another section for my to try this ends with a use of finger three then two on the top string. I will need to practise a fair bit adding this all together.

I next went over the other main song I am learning which is “Half The World Away” by Oasis.

The first part of the song has mixed results with C not sounding too bad but F major 7 is still no where near right.

The next part is getting better but the change to F major 7 is still difficult. The teacher told me I was playing it a bit fast to try and get through it and I need to relax and enjoy.

We practised these two parts a lot and I was told that is sort of two thirds of the song with a difficult bit in the middle which I will look at soon.

To make me ready for that time I had two bar cords to learn. The first was B Minor.

This was very difficult one and it felt like my hand was twisting in many directions at the same time.

The next was a F bar cord.

 This one was no better. I have plenty to practise and if I could just make my hand move in several ways at the same time these bar cords should be fine.