Guitar Practice

My first guitar lesson went quite well. I showed my instructor how little I actually know. Yes, I'm VERY much a beginner. But no problems there. I've already learned some things from him that I might not have learned had my instructor thought I was anything other than a beginner. For example, now I know, at least conceptually, how my hand is supposed to be placed on the neck of the guitar.

This week, I'm practicing the C major scale. Practice for me consists of practicing the C major scale a few dozen times a day. My fingers get tired. My hand gets tired. My family gets tired of hearing the same crappy scale over and over. Yet, it's getting less and less crappy!

The nice thing is that once I memorized the scale (didn't take too long, playing it a few dozen times a day), I was then free to focus on watching my hand position, and watching how my fingers moved, and watching how I'm picking the strings with the pick, etc.

It may be a little boring now, but the nice thing... the VERY nice thing... is that I'm learning techniques that will be very very useful not too far into the future.