Thought There was no hope for my guitar playing (C) 2019

I have been practicing guitar for thirty minutes a day, for four months now. I was inspired to practice every day, by a friend of mine who frequents the openmic at The Julep Room in Ocean Springs. He said he practices two hours a day. I reflected on my own practices and realized I may have been practicing an hour a week, Most of the time I practiced while watching television. I foolishly, only thought that I was just a terrible guitar player, and there was no hope.

 It started off trying to learn Zakk Wyldes solo to Ozzy Osborne's “No More Tears.” Then I started learning other cover songs during that thirty minutes. These songs were David Bowie’s “Heroes” Talking Head’s “Once In a Life time,” Social Distortion’s “Untitled,” and “When The Angel’s Sing,” Lynard Skynard’s “Simple Man,” and Bob Seger’s cover of “Trying to Live My Life Without You,” I also wrote poems. One of em’ I put chords to was “Making Something Beautiful Out of Something So Broken.”  

 About three weeks ago, I started recording my practices. Then I analyze my techniques. I realized some mistakes I have been making. I was told about these mistakes before. At the time, I took that constructive criticism as ridicule. These mistakes are playing while looking at the fret board, not learning to play standing up, not learning strum patterns, and getting fret buzz.

My openmics will get better, as I continue to practice. I must also work on my negative thinking while performing-that’s for another blog post.