learn to play guitar

so i’ve pretty much got the hang of it. i’m still a total newbie, but i’ve learned new chords and have figured out a few tiny things on my own. i can now play seven different songs with confidence and the list keeps growing!

So after that last entry, I didn’t pick up my guitar again for almost A YEAR. (Moving and new baby and all. I had other things on my mind.) I picked it up again about a month ago, because I wanted to play a song that my students were rehearsing in music class. I was determined, and I asked the guitar teacher who wrote the song to show me the chords. He did. I played! And I’ve been playing/practicing steadily ever since! I’ve taught myself three more songs by ear, and I am learning new chords! There’s no stopping me now!

This past week I played on my guitar a few times. Hard to do with a one year-old trying to play along with you. But I played nonetheless. I tried out a few things and managed to play four small made-up melodies that actually sounded like real music. Woohoo!

But man it makes my fingers hurt.

A friend gave me a guitar she wasn’t using yesterday, just out of the blue! Woohoo!