Week #3: Accomplishing "10 Day Guitar Starter Course"
Not all videos are clipped. This is just the taste of how I play.
The days refer to the lesson name, not the days I played.
Here’s what I did
**The green texts are the title of the lesson I took, red texts are the new chords I learned**
<26/ Jan/ Thursday>
Day 1 - E & A Chords and 'For What It's Worth' by Buffalo Springfield
* E major
*A major
<27/ Jan/ Friday>
miss (reason: Seolal, I went to my grandmas)
<28/Jan/ Saturday>
miss (reason :same as above)
<29/ Jan/ Sunday>
Day 2 - D Chord, A to D change and 'Born In The USA' by Bruce Springsteen
* D major
<30/ Jan/ Monday>
Day 3 - 8th strumming and 'Three Little Birds' by Bob Marley with just the chords E, A and D
Reggae off beat Strumming pattern-Not yet mastered
<31/Jan/ Tuesday>
Day 4 - You're first guitar riff! 'Wild Thing' by The Troggs
A 'riff' is something we can play on guitar that is short, repetitive and recognisable as a particular song.
<1/ Feb/ Wednesday>
Day 5 - Folk Strumming and Lead Guitar for 'Ooh La Laa' by The Faces
<2/Feb/ Thursday>
Day 6 - Fingerstyle introduction, minor chords and 'Ain't No Sunshine' by Bill Withers
* E minor
* A minor
* D minor
Seungbin(10th grade) taught me how to play G chord and adjusted my way of how to strum the strings with a certain beat.
<3/ Feb/ Friday>
missed (reason: um..)
<4/ Feb/ Saturday>
Day 7 - Key of G '4 Chord Songs' and 'I'm Yours' by Jason Mraz
Day 8 - G Major Scale and 'The Joker' by Steve Miller Band
*Dsus4 Chord
*Cadd9 Chord
*G major Chord
*E Minor 7 Chord
* G major scale
<5/ Feb/ Sunday>
Day 9 - Full C chord and 'Hey Ya' by Outkast
Day 10 - 10 Day Guitar Starter Course
REFLECTION:
My plan was very hard to keep. I spent whole lot of my weekend, finnishing up the goal I made for this week. I’ve been too rushing about the plan I made.
My plan was to learn the 10 videos from the begginner’s course https://www.andyguitar.co.uk/online-lessons/day-10-10-day-guitar-starter-course/
, to master all of the 10 videos since it is only 10 minutes long.
Although I feel like I learned a lot than any other time, I think I can't do it like this unless I have less homeowork, like this weekend. Not only because of the time problem but also because I needed a separate time to practice by myself.
I was a bit frustrated. My ambition and fingers did not align with each other. I figured that I had to slow down. The purpose of my project was not only to learn guitar, but to enjoy it.
I figured that picking a song isn’t the main part I should be working on. Every time I learn a new chord, based on that chord, Andy (my source) introduced a song.
It’s much easier because the chords Andy taught were easy to switch because they were around the similar strings.
Doing the guitar for 20% project gave me a time to think back at my daily habit. I had to set my schedule tightly. I usually don’t set the time for when I am going to finnish my homework. My goal was just to finnish it till the next day. This caused me to sleep late because I would do other things (such as doing internet) while doing my homework This delays my work time. I honestly spend my time as if I have loads of time, which is totally not true.
But, for this project, if I delayed it a little bit late, I couldn’t do it because I can’t play the instrument in the middle of the night when everyone is sleeping. So I couldn’t push my work till the end. If I did, I would have to miss it.
I will have to be more strict for my next week.
But, on the other hand, I am very proud for being able to stroke the sings based on a song. If it weren’t for the project, it would have been hard to continue m
My next Goal...
Based on what I learned for this week, I will ask help for Ashley or SiYong about "Folk Strumming" (Day 5 lesson).
Working on "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz was my next week's goal. Eventually, I got to learn it this week. But I will practice this song till I master it.
I haven't mastered the lessons from 5 to 10. So I am not posting the videos of that part. I won't be repeating the unmastered ones. Instead, I'm going to the Beginner course video (which contains 55 videos).
I am going to work on it consistently every day, without procrastinating!
I am going to learn from Siyong, Guitarholic (http://siyonguitar.weebly.com/) tomorrow during lunch! I am very excited.