Tag: guitar

Learning Guitar: 6 Months Later

So here we go. Those of you just tuning in, clearly you were not impressed with my previous months of guitar blogs. Sooooo… Pshht. Don’t be expecting me to go over it all again. ‘ve been practising very little. So not much to talk about. In truth, talking to my teacher, he suggested that at absolute minimum I need 1 hour of practice per day – which I’m not getting. And in-fact, to start becoming good something in the order of 4 hours per day – probably more. Lets get started.

The Guitar After 2 Months

So ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, come join me and follow along with my next month of guitar learning. Thats a total of 2 months. Probably close to 3 months. Wow… Just wow! Let me show you what I’ve learnt and how you too can learn the guitar like the genius talent that I am. Yep. GENIUS. Thats what i am. Yes indeed. Indoubatably. I’ll cover some new chords, scales and some more complex rhythm and strumming patterns.

Learning Guitar Week 3 & 4: More Complex Strumming + Chords

The previous weeks I had begun the process of learning the basics of strumming and chords. This week, follow me on the next two weeks of my journey to not sucking at music. Crack open a cool can of your favourite drink, a pop corn and watch me fail. .. Damn those internet skeptics. Always ready to mock a poor innocent engineer venturing out into the cruel cruel world. Sighhhhhh.

Learning Guitar Week 1 & 2: The Before Time and the Battle for Strumming and Rhythm

Welcome to the wonderful world of guitar. Are you one of those sassy people who learned some music basics when you were young? Huh? You lucky devils …. Alas, there are some among us that still need a bit of learning to do. I’ve found that some people trying to teach music in the great outdoors make basic assumptions that make it challenging for a complete beginner. This blog outlines my first week of the guitar learning process as a real ‘complete’ beginner. Ladies and gents, enter and enjoy my terrible guitar playing. …. what …. you want me to stop? Well, all you have to do is throw money at me and I promise I’ll stop playing … No ….. no. I’m lying. Did you forget. I’m from the internet.