play my guitar more

Well, I haven’t even touched it in ages. But I pickled it up today, just for a couple of minutes. Ouch! My fingers have got soft, and I’ve practically forgotten what little I did know. Oh well.

This week, I’m not concentrating on any partcular exercises. I’m just going to pick one or other of the guitars up every day and attempt to play something – anything. Re-familiarise myself with some of those ‘easy’ chords I used to know.

I don’t want to create a complete new goal for this, but I do want to record it as a related subgoal.

I will pick up a guitar and practice scales for 10 minutes at least 4 days a week for the next 4 weeks.

At the end of that time I’ll review my progress and either add to or repeat the goal.
I figure 10 minutes should be achievable (was going to be 5, but that’s not really enough time). 4 days a week (Mon, Tue, Thu Fri) because those are the days it’s easiest to do, the guitar just being an arm’s length away from me. Scales, because it’s a basic exercise for flexibility and strength in my fingers.

Edit: 4 days will now be Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri. They’ve changed the day I go up to work. I don’t know if my fingers can cope with 3 days in a row.

I actually have three guitars. There’s the classical one my Dad bought me when I was in high school. Somehow, my hands no longer stretch round the neck – I can’t play that one now.
There’s the one I bought myself when I started taking lessons. Inexpensive acoustic.
And finally there’s the electic my partner bought me for my birthday. Haven’t actually tried that one out at all yet.
I sit in the same room as them all day, most days (I work from home 4 days a week). But somehow I never seem to get the time to pick any one of them up any more.