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Conquering my dread
Great week learning “Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers…not because I nailed it all, but because I was able to honestly assess strengths and weaknesses in my playing. I’ve been dreading Wednesdays because I suck at remembering scales. I worked and worked at learning just one of the five patterns and now know it. It felt good to get past the dread!
Hope to keep getting better at scales, soloing and improvising.
Also, anyone else having trouble holding down all the strings to get a clear sound on the minor seventh barre chords?? Hoping with time and practice this too will improve!
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Nice to hear you have turned a corner. Getting a handle on your progress is an implied skill that spans every lesson type, and comes with repetition and some focus. The scale problem is a common one because the physical part seems abstract and arbitrary. As you do more, your ear takes over and your fretting hand gets better at knowing where to be for the next note. A future big win happens when you can even do this on the treacherous B-string! Losing the dread is really good, as it’s hard to enjoy something that makes you miserable. It’s a journey, and it’s yours. Take a deep breath and be ready for your time and effort to pay off.
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