...and I already have a new and fulfilling experience to report.
I managed to tune my own guitar today. It took me quite a while, because it’s the first time I’ve ever done it, and at first it seemed that the more I tried, the more out of whack it got.
But I really wanted to practice, because I’d missed yesterday. So I stuck with it, eventually managing to get it back in tune so that I could play my practice pieces without cringing.
And then I practiced for an hour to make up for missing yesterday.
Up to now, I’ve tried to go through my entire repertoire of 6 songs (only one of them longer than 16 bars) at least a couple of times during my practice session. That’s been taking about 30 minutes a day:
- Ode to Joy (first 2 strings, 6 notes)
- Aura Lee (first 3 strings, 7 notes)
- Amazing Grace (2nd, 3rd, and 4th strings, 6 notes)
- When the Saints Go Marching In (2nd and 3rd strings, 5 notes)
- Greensleeves (2nd through 5th strings, 9 notes)
- The Rose (1st 3 strings, 7 notes)
Today I went through them all once, and then went back and practiced “Amazing Grace” over and over for the rest of the time. I’ve almost learned it by heart now, and I can really hear the improvement.
Sooner or later I guess I’ll have to “graduate” to chords, but my tiny little fingers have had such enormous trouble with the ones I’ve tried to play so far that I’ve retreated to playing single notes.
