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So now we're in the second week of the grand experiment where I track my progress at learning guitar. I've been doing chords for the past week for half an hour per day (chords G, D, Em, A7, and E7), and I'm already seeing some improvement and I'm sounding a lot better. Now I'm checking in with a status report. So here goes...
Ok, as I said on the recording, I've been hard at work on the chords I've promised to learn over this two week period. When I "learned" chords last time, I had a lot difficulties with the transitions. Now that I've set a daily regimen, though, it's been worlds easier. I think the consistent daily use of the same hand motions helps build the muscle memory that's required when you play chords. Half an hour per day is so much better than 10 hours once a week. It also seems as if solo playing and chord playing work from a different aspect of muscle memory.
I figure I might as well go into chords for a bit. From what I've been learning, chords are a first note, a third note, and a fifth note. I have no idea why, but I assume it's just theoretically based on a 1st, 3rd, and 5th because the three strings ring in a certain aesthetically pleasing way. Since a chromatic scale is just A through G, it's really easy to find out what notes are in the major scale (G and D, which I've been learning, are in the major scale). If I'm playing a G chord, the G note is naturally going to be the "1st". Two numbers after that is B, which is my third. Two numbers after B is D, which is my fifth. So a G chord consisted of the notes G, B, and D. When you put your fingers on frets on a guitar for G chord, for example, you're making it so that only G, B, and D notes ring. Things get a little more tricky for minor chords and 7s and stuff, but I'll go into that more later.
See ya in a week!
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Written by steamr0ller on 2008-01-19 15:10:00another good installment, keep up the good work
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So now we're in the second week of the grand experiment where I track my progress at learning guitar. I've been doing chords for the past week for half an hour per day (chords G, D, Em, A7, and E7), and I'm already seeing some improvement and I'm sounding a lot better. Now I'm checking in with a status report. So here goes...
