Thanks for the input, I've been at it for about a month now and I am up to strumming and the D7 chord. I start practicing with Sitting Easy Blues, then on to Full Out Blues before I start the lesson I'm on, I still can't seem to catch the right string all the time when I'm not looking, and when I start to concentrate on which string to pick I tend to lose my left hand, I guess that's why they call it practice. I'm also going through Essential Blues Chords when I need a break from BBG.
Well stated!When I first got BBG about 5 Years ago, with virtually no guitar experience, I looked at it as a step to "get through" on my way to bigger and better things. I pushed my way through it in about 3 or 4 months and moved on. Since then, I have gone back to it many times, because when I finished the first time I didn't know what I didn't know. This course isn't a step as much as it is a foundation. And a house is built on a foundation, not a step or a front porch. If I could go back and do it over, I would not worry about how fast I could get through it, I would concentrate on how well I could learn each lesson, no matter how long it takes. Each time I go back, whether for a particular lesson or skill, or just to practice something basic, I find something else that I had missed, skipped over, or just didn't put enough time on. And a lot of the things that stump me in whatever course I happen to be working on at present, I can go back to BBG and find a lesson in it that will give me a basic skill to work on to make the current problem a little less daunting. Oh, and when Griff says count out loud, count out loud. If you don't learn that at the start, its harder to do later. Wish I had listened to that as well.
This is the gospel truth, right here.Impossible question to answer..................
Heres an example. I have heard people bitch and moan about 9 chords and how they avoid them. I picked up on 9 chords in like 5 minutes, but I struggled with 5th string 7th chords.
6th string barre chords were fairly easy to me......but other things were not. Point being, you will find your own journey, no two are alike, but dont stress the courses or time. I have gone halfway through many courses, then do something different and come back
Funny you should mention that, the timing aspect seems to come pretty easy while grabbing the chord itself remains pretty difficult. Muscle memory is just going to take a lot of time it seems.This is the gospel truth, right here.
I'm always amazed at the things that give one person trouble, while another person sails right on through. Don't try to judge your progress by someone else's, it never works out.
I am enjoying the lessons and trying to absorb everything I can, it is a slow process and having mechanic's hands it makes twisting my fingers into chord shapes a little challenging. I'm looking forward to when I can just play the chords without thinking about it and not having to look to see which part of my finger is muting a string.