Mastery Tutorial
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Mastery Tutorial
Guitar, something I should drop?
I've been practicing on my older brothers guitar (dont worry, he gave it to me before he left home a year ago to start his graduate studies). I've been using the same tutorial books/software that he used to train up from a beginner level to advanced (point of note; he can play the guitar really well). I took up guitar after I got tired of the flute (which was easy to me, and I'm good at it), but here are my questions...
1. My fingers hurt like heck and have started peeling dry skin and getting hard at the finger tips. (is this normal?)
2. And I've been practicing chords for 2 weeks straight and I still feel as if anyone else could make the same progression I've made in a couple of days.....am I not meant for this instrument, or is this progression over the mastery of such a instrument general to most others too?
I don't think you're progressing slow at all. I grew up with a guitar player as a dad, and I got to sit down and watch him play all the time. I just started playing about a month ago, and I can only remember maybe six chords and I've only learned one "real" song (aka- not twinkle twinkle little star type songs). You'd think having all those years messing around with his guitar would have given me some sort of jump start. . .but nope. Not really. The only plus I got was that I know what equipment is good and what is crap.
And your fingers won't hurt for long. Mine have already built up callouses tough enough that I don't really feel anything any more, and I've only been at it about two more weeks than you.
It's something that takes time, especially if you're coming off of another instrument. You've played the flute, you're good at it, and you're used to it. A guitar is a completely different type of instrument that plays in a completely different way. You've got to get yourself accustomed to it, and you have to stop comparing it and how you learn it to your experiences with the flute. I played violin before I started on the guitar, and, even though their both stringed instruments, I find I'm having to "unlearn" things in order to progress with the guitar.
Maybe you need to try learning chords in a different way. I found I couldn't really learn chords just by looking at them and strumming them. . .I had to find songs that I wanted to learn to play, and then, even if I didn't learn the song, I would learn the chords from TRYING to learn the song. I'm going to put a video in the sources, it's the first song I learned on guitar. . .and it was relatively easy and got me away from the frustration of just trying to memorize chords.
Keep at it!
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I keep turning it off and it will not stay off, I have put it in trusted sites but it won't allow me to do my Mastery Tests and Tutorials. Can somebody help?
this happens to me as well when i do my coursework,
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