Did you know your pinky is weak? I didn’t until I had to try and use it to play guitar a bunch. To make things worse, the next step on my guitar journey is learning the Peter Gunn theme. For the sake of practice, while picking this theme, we are expected to use all of our fingers for practice and this includes the pinky finger. While this may sound like nothing, using my pinky finger has been quite the challenge. But if my journey so far is any proof, a couple sour notes while I am learning something won’t stop me!

Luckily, I am working on more than that. Song practice is coming together, I can sort of play Born in the USA now, but just not for a consistent amount of time. I usually make a mistake or two a few bars in that throws me off. However, I can play each simple part of the song away from each other. Now, I just need to be able to consistently put all those skills together to make a coherent sounding song!

Lastly, I have also been working on a few mechanical skills: strumming on the beat, strumming mechanics, and tapping my foot to the beat. As someone who is not very rhythmically inclined, this has been a trial but a rewarding one.  The strumming mechanics in particular have been helping my playing sound more like someone playing the guitar!

As always, thanks for reading!!