My dad would always tell me to play a little everyday until i developed calluses, promising it would get easier from there. But I got frustrated too easily & kept giving up. 3 years later, I FINALLY pushed myself to do it. Persistence has given me calluses & a stronger hand, so I can play once-frustrating songs all the way through now & hold bar chords down correctly without pain. woo!
NEXT STEP: singing & playing at the same time. i can do some songs, but when the chord progression gets too fast/complicated i stop singing to concentrate on my hands. also, at a young age i developed the “diva” habit of moving my hand while i sing (picture mariah carey with a mike in one hand & the other fluttering up & down to follow her vocal runs), so it’s hard to curb that tendency (i.e. my strumming hand loses the rhythm during a vocal run because it wants to move with my voice instead of continue the strumming pattern). any tips?
