Well… here we go! As of now, my main goal is to learn how to play the guitar. With resources as numerous as they are for a topic such as learning the guitar, I am starting out with a vague main goal to allow myself to branch out wherever I would like to go on this journey.  I also have a “sub-goal” that I decided on before I begin this in earnest. In my previous attempts to learn the guitar, I have always felt like practicing the basics has made me feel like I have nothing to show for it. So my first sub-goal will be to learn how to play a song.

Now that I have outlined my goals, let’s get into how I am going to do this. Luckily, there is no shortage of guitar tutorials on the internet. So after a little internet research, I have opted to tentatively use the online tutorials of a YouTuber named JustinGuitar. He also has a comprehensive website where I can mark each lesson he has as complete too!  My partner is also an experienced guitar player so I do have access to her knowledge should I need any hands-on guidance. For now, I do not plan on branching off the lesson plan set out by this YouTuber until I can feel comfortable about being more independent in my guitar learning. I feel like keeping a strict regimen will be the key to success here as previous attempts have been less structured.

So as far as what my lessons will look like for now, I will be trying to get in 15 minutes of playing guitar a day. The scheduling for those will look like this: 5 minutes of practicing my chord changes from A>D and D>A and 10 minutes of song practice. For the song practice, JustinGuitar has a list of A and D chord songs for students to learn and video tutorials to boot. Due to my now not-so-secret love for the Boss, I decided to learn “Born in the USA”.

As for how my project is going to look, I think I am planning to film my first 15 minute practices every week and cut them up into little chunks to share my fun bits and pieces of my progress here.

Hopefully, this sounds as exciting as I think it is going to be for me! Thanks for reading this and I hope you stick around with me on this journey!