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Dans Guitar Learning Journal
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Follow my journey from guitar zero to hero (hopefully.)
Recent Posts
Practise…Practise….Practise
I haven’t updated the blog in a while because I haven’t got to a comfortable level with Practise Routine 3. I’ve made a few improvements, but I’m not quite ready to move on yet. Here is some video of my latest practising to...
Practise Routine 3
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, the...
New Strum Pattern
I learned a new strum pattern tonight. Lets call it Strum 3. Practise is going well. I’m almost ready to change my routine....
How to hold a Barre Chord
A couple of years ago, during one of my various guitar learning phases, I picked up a really useful tip on how to hold barre chords. For months I struggled trying to learn barre chords, I thought it was a matter of developing strength in my hands ...
Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie!
My favourite guitar mnemonic. From now on I guarantee you will have no trouble remembering the notes of your open strings. Practise didn’t go so well tonight. My fret hand got tired quite early on and I never really recovered. I did go thr...
The Long Slow Goodbye
I’ve decided to copy Tony over at The Guitar Quest and learn possibly my favourite QOTSA song. It’s a bit challenging in the strumming and guitar trickometer departments for a mere beginner, but the chords are pretty easy and I have no...

