I'm happy to say that after countless hours of practicing over the past 2-3 months, I am officially able to play the guitar comfortably. This may not seem like much of a triumph, but I should explain what I mean. I am at a point in playing where my fingers know the chords well enough to be able to look at a song's chords/tabs and play it without a problem. This is not something I have ever been able to do.
In the past, it would take me days to get a song down, but now my brain and my fingers know the chords so well that I can play it without practicing all that much. For example, I was practicing a song for my open mic yesterday and I went through the song and realized I didn't think much about guitar the whole time I was singing, it just sort of...happened. It's a very cool pay-off.
However, now my new challenge is getting too wrapped up in the vocals of the song and losing my strumming pattern. This seems to happen to me quite a bit. I think some of it has to do with the fact that I am so used to only being concerned with vocals that I am still getting used to splitting my attention. But, I figure that is something that will also come with time, just as my recent triumph did!
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