First song I was able to play was Summer of 69, granted it was slow and only contained about 3 chords and no particular strumming pattern I thought I was absolutely amazing! I even won an award for it at the end of the year :)
I'd love to be able to play any song on the guitar, just listen to the tune a few times then strum away!
It's a lot more difficult than I imagined. People make it look so easy in music videos and things like that. I just expected to pick it up and be able to play anything - I was very wrong!
The thing that I find most difficult is bar chords and chords that use all four fingers! Sometimes they just don't reach, haha!
And bar chords are super difficult especially when you're weak like me because you have to hold down all six strings with one finger as well as placing the rest on others to make a chord! I checked good old wikipedia for a proper definition which told me that "a barre chord (also known as bar chord or rarely barr chord) is a type of guitar chord, where one or more fingers are used to press down multiple strings across the guitar fingerboard (like a bar pressing down the strings), enabling the guitarist to play a chord not restricted by the tones of the guitar's open strings." That's very fancy altogether eh?
There have been times where I get frustrated because a chord just doesn't sound like it should which is soooo annoying, but when it does its like the best thing ever!
Now I've finally gotten to the stage where I can put chords together to make them sound like an actual song! Very fancy altogether! I think my family will soon get tired of hearing the same three songs over and over again but you know what they say 'Practice makes perfect!'
I'm determined to match Ed Sheeran's guitar skills, I'll let you guys know when I do ;)
Have an amazing day lovelies
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