log

My guitar learning journey

First month

240104

• Borrowed an acoustic to learn/practice on
• Started with Day 1
• Learning E major A major Chords

240105

• Continuing previous days learning
• Working through Summer Breeze Tutorial
• Picking up a few new chords (E minor, A minor 7th, G major, D major)

240106

• Revisiting the “10 Day Guitar Starter Course” Series
• Played through Day 2
• Played through Day 3
• Practicing switching between E, A , D major chords

240107

• Warm up with previous day lesson
• Played through Day 4

240109

• Played through Day 5
• Played through Day 6

240110

• Played through Day 7
• Learning “Oasis chords” (Gmaj Dsus4, Emin7, Cadd9)

240112

• My first guitar arrived! Yamaha FG800M
• Learning about fretboard patterns
• Revisiting “Summer Breeze Tutorial”

240114

• Played through Day 8
• Learning Gmaj scale
• Practicing strumming and switching between chords for “Summer Breeze Tutorial” verse
• Started incorporating spider crawl into warmup (it’s hard)
• Learning about barre chords

240115

• Spider crawl warmup
• Practicing some barre chords
• Continued practicing strumming between Emaj → Gmaj → Dmaj → Amaj for Summer Breeze verse
• Started chorus for Summer Breeze (Amin7 → Bmin7)
• Played through Day 9

240116

• Practicing chorus and strumming for Summer Breeze (Amin7 → Bmin7 → Amin7 → Gmaj)
• Started looking at Blackbird Fingerstyle

240117

• More of the same

240118

• Switching up Summer Breeze reference

240119 - 240121

• Practicing Summer Breeze

240122

• Found a nice tutorial for Love Yourself

240126

• Learning about pentatonic shapes, warmups

240127

• More exercises
  • Picking exercise
  • Warmups
  • Picking Techniques
• Watching a few computer amp guitar setups
• Found tabs for Pokemon Littleroot

240129 - 240204

• Break

240204 - 240208

• Building my first electric guitar documented here

240209 - 240210

• Break

240211

• Learning Just the two of us