I was never happy with the name fo the blog, but it's so hard to find a name that wasn't taken. Yesterday I thought of this great new name for the blog, (or at least a better one than I had), so I put that in to action.
Had a great lesson yesterday. It was one of those days where you leave thinking to yourself "THIS is why I pay for lessons!". Keith finds and identifies for me the problems in my playing that might take years for me to identify and fix myself. Yesterday's issue was how hard I was fingering the strings. When I strum harder, I push harder, but even when I strum softly I was pushing pretty hard on those strings. Part of the problem appeared to be that my fingers were too far from the edge of the fret. I moved them as far over as I could without actually being on top of the darn thing and lo and behold, it required much less pressure to make a clean sound. (Or what passes for a clean sound when I play...) =) I also noticed immediately that I could play faster. Amazing. Who knows how long it would have taken me to pick up on this if I tried to teach myself from a book, or by ear? Great stuff!
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