So aside from improving my singing this semester I have also been learning to play the guitar. I wouldn't say I could play it exactly, but I have gone from never having picked one up, to mastering a few basic chords and melodies. I've never attempted to learn a song from scratch with just the chords written in front of me though - that was throwing myself into the deep end.
Having looked at the score for Passenger's 'Let Her Go' with Natalie, who was playing the piano part, for about an hour I was ready to smash the guitar into pieces, I couldn't get the hang of what I was doing as I didn't really know where to start. Frustrated I asked for help and realised that I was trying too hard and I needed to start out with something simple. Instead of playing the full melody with the correct strumming pattern I played only the block chord of every chord change, this allowed me more time to move my fingers and get to grips with the piece.
I'm still by no means good but I feel like I improved a lot in just that one session, I worked hard and went from barely stringing two chords together to (slowly) working up to fluent changes. It just goes to show determination and hard work do indeed pay off, I found a YouTube video of the piece I'm practicing so that I can rehearse outside of class and hopefully get to grips with it before the group assessment.
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