Learning the Guitar: The Performance

After only 7 days of learning the guitar, I had to put my money where my mouth happened to be and perform Hey Soul Sister by Train for my colleagues and the Youtube fraternity.

Did I make it?

Did the phlegm affect anything?

Watch the video and find out...

Learning the Guitar: Day 7

I was really encouraged with the progress I'd made on day 6 and I was ready to go for it on day 7 only I got a cold.

Bleurgh.

Watch the video to see how this dampened my spirits...

Learning the Guitar: Day 6

So day 5 was quite disappointing. I felt like I'd gone back to square one and there were just some things I wasn't going to get. Day 6 had to be the day where I turned it all around otherwise I wasn't going to make good on my deadline...

There was only one thing for it...

Time to call in the experts and cue the music...

Learning the Guitar: Day 5

So day 5 has turned out to be a bit of a frustrating one... I've been concentrating on strumming all day and I'll be honest, I feel like it's a classic case of one step forward, two steps back.

Progress is slow with the strumming pattern, and to add insult to injury, the left hand seems to be falling to pieces too.

Well if it was easy it wouldn't be a challenge.

Learning the Guitar: Day 4

We've hit day 4 and you'll notice a suspicious lack of guitar playing today...

Watch the video to find out what I was doing instead...

Learning the Guitar: Day 3

So this is day three of my guitar learning challenge!


I've started to get to grips with the component parts of the wonderful Hey Soul Sister by Train, but I've not actually looked at how the song is structured, so cue some fast chord changes, a bit of bopping, and a lot of flapping...

Learning the Guitar: Day 2

So it's day 2 of my guitar challenge and I've introduced a little bit of right hand action!

Watch the video to find out the other trials and tribulations...