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Thanks! Yes that makes perfect sense, much appreciated

Hi, thanks for that. What exactly is swing? Sorry, I have tried Googling but not entirely sure what it is!

Hi all, im a 37 year old professional photographer living in the United Arab Emirates, and ive always loved all kinds of music. My primary outlet is through DJing (Techno and House). Ive tried playing guitar 2 times before this in my life, once at 18 and once at 30. This is my third attempt! Ive never gotten past being able to bang out a line of an Oasis song or something. Ive never learned an entire song not once. Ive never finger picked, only ever strummed so I am going into the course as a total beginner in terms of playing actual notes. I think ive quit in the past because I had no structure to learning. I would look up a song I like, learn the chords and try to play it only to discover I sucked at it without really knowing why, which killed motivation. I think this course is just the ticket. Im almost done with session 4 at the time of writing and just get more enthusiastic as each practice session passes. Very glad to be here.

I’m sticking with the “when to move on” criteria, which doesn’t mention rests, thankfully but I’m with you on that one. I just try to listen to the actual song and feel the rhythm of the rests at this point. I can’t look at a sheet of music and play it with the correct rests without hearing it first. I’m sure it will come though. If someone told me a month ago I’d be able to read any music whatsoever I’d have called them a liar!

I agree. I went back to earlier lessons and they were a breeze after session 4 and not even attempting the earlier ones for a while. If anyone is interested ive decided to post vids of the sessions. I know it really helped me seeing people play these on youtube. Its definitely far from perfect obviously but I thnk im happy for being 3 weeks into the course (2 of which have been spent solely on session4!!) 100% open to feedback!

Hey guys, I’m currently on session 4 and have been for around 5 days, trying to learn Minuet in C is tougher than expected but I now have it down albeit with a shaky final bar (I’ve not practiced that as much due to me failing to reach that point for the last few days!). I’m hoping another couple of days max and I’ll have covered all of the requirements to move on. Each other session was a day or 2 max so this one has had me worried! But I think I’m over the worst of it. I do have a question though... im not sure how much of this is my ability to read and play what I see on the sheet music, or what I’m just remembering through repetition. Is that ok?