Update 12/7/13

I'm sorry that this'll sound so bland, but I only looked up chords and how to play them properly. I also looked up some more beginner songs that aren't too bad. 

11/22/13 update

This week I focused mainly on watching beginner guitar songs instructional videos. It was quite informational as I found an easy way to play Lynyrd Skynrd "Simple Man" thanks to the youtube Martyzsongs.

11/15/13

This week I was incredibly focused on the play because we have our performances the 14th, 15th, and 16th (Anyone reading this should attend the play. Admission is only five dollars!) So because I was focusing on the play so much I really only looked at guitar chords this week. Next week I'll won't have anything going on during the week so I'll be practicing a lot after school.

11/8/13 update

So this week we had a day off school due to election day, or as all the gamers called it, "COD Ghosts release day." Since I didn't get the game yet I practiced a bit. I've mainly still been practicing chord transitions because I'm not nearly where I want to be with the speed of changing chords. I'll be moving out my grandma tomorrow so odds are I'll have a little time after to practice and get better.

11/1/13 update

I have a bit too much free time now that football is over, that's how I'm starting this. Since I only have to focus on the play now, I have a lot more time to do other things. I spent a lot of this week working on chord transitions and getting my fingers tougher. I'm looking to maybe replace "Northern Downpour"  with "Cancer" by My Chemical Romance, because I may have overestimated my ability when I started out. "Cancer" is still challenging, but not quite as much as "Northern downpour. I may also add "Margaritaville" because it looks like a rather fun song.

10/25/13 update

Since this week was the last week of football I was incredibly focused on football and had no time to practice guitar because I was preparing for the game. A positive out of this is that we won our game 29-6 and finished with a record of 8-1. Another positive outcome is that since football is now over I only have to focus on the play which means I'll have a lot more time to practice guitar! I can finally get on a fairly decent practice schedule and really start learning the music and focusing on it a lot more. I know I said I'd add more songs to the list as I progress and I will as soon as I learn at least "House of the Rising Sun". So this is a great thing that I now have time to actually practice and not just pick up the guitar for a few minutes every few days.

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10/18/13 Update

Alright so I didn't have a lot of time to practice guitar this week due to trying to make it to play practice and football. It was suggested that I post video of me playing soon so there's evidence of my progress. I think that is a good idea so I want to get one up on here as soon as possible, I do not know when that will be but if I can I'd like it to be soon. I'm sorry I don't have a lot to update on this week but I should have more next week!

10/11/13

This week I began looking at the plucking for House of the Rising Sun. It looks pretty simple, but I haven't had time to try it yet because of football this week. I will be practicing this weekend though, because I will have plenty of spare time. I got the tab for this song from Ultimate Guitar  which is a very reliable place to find chords and tabs for music. I have got all the tabs and chords from this site. I hope to get the pluck pattern down sometime this weekend or next week.

Sidenote

I will be changing my guitar picture, because I took it with my iPod and it looks rather poor. I have one of the yearbook cameras for the weekend so I'll be using it to take a guitar picture as well as sports. I have also officially removed "Good Riddance" from the list of songs.

10/3/13 update

This week I took to practicing "Wagon Wheel" because I am still rusty with my guitar since I've only played it a few times since school began. Good news is I still remember almost all the chords and how to transition them pretty well. On the down side being without practice has greatly decreased my chord transitioning time, and I think I need to get the calluses back onto my fingertips because playing did hurt a bit yesterday. I played mostly while I was on xbox waiting for the GTA 5 online to load, unfortunately that didn't happen so I got about a little more than a hour's worth of practice. I will be using "Wagon Wheel" to get my speed back into my fingers for guitar.

9/27/13 update

In terms of skills learned this week I havn't learned any due to the fact that I've taken "Good Riddance" off my list. I will begin practicing "Wagon Wheel" and "House of the Rising Sun" this weekend though! So it's not like I'm doing nothing.

September 20th Update

I've been looking at many tabs and chord lists on Ultimate Guitar so I can have a basic idea of what the songs will look and sound like when I get my guitar lowered. I have practiced "Good Riddance", already and I have the strum pattern and chords down, I just need to get my chord transitions down faster. I know a small bit of "Wagon Wheel", as it is similar to "Good Riddance", except the chord progression is a little different, and the strum pattern has a small pause in between two of the beats. I will continue to practice. Hopefully I can get my guitar fixed sometime soon so I can get the full sound out of it.

Hello, my twenty time project is learning some of my favorite acoustic songs on my acoustic guitar. I began playing guitar at the end of my ninth grade year and I love the instrument. My instructor was one of my very good friends who graduated during my ninth grade year. I love the acoustic guitar because it has a natural beauty to it's sound that is hard to replicate on other stringed instrument. While I do like the sound of an electric guitar, I would much rather start out on the acoustic and work my way up to electric. I got my guitar at the end of the summer from one of my friend's dad, of which I was very thankful for. I aim to learn the songs good enough so that I may preform one or two in front of the class if I preform at all.

I aim to have a total of at least six songs learned by the end of the semester. So far the songs I've chose are "Good Riddance" by Green Day, "Wagon Wheel" by Darius Rucker, "House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals, and "Northern Downpour" by Panic! at the Disco. I've always liked Green Day's music and "Good Riddance", is probably my favorite acoustic song by them besides maybe "When September Ends".  It was played at the graduation last year by three of my my friends and it sounded amazing! "Wagon Wheel", while it is a relatively new song, is still a great song. It has a pretty simple chord progression, but it will still take me time to learn. "House of the Rising Sun", is in my top three classic rock songs of all time. It is not a very piece to learn as I've already attempted, but I am ready to go again! There are two versions of the song, a strummed version and a plucked version. I am going to try to learn the plucked version. Lastly "Northern Downpour", is one of my favorite Panic at the Disco songs. I discovered the band while listening to Pandora radio at a friends house. As I listened to more of their music I began to like them more and more, it got to the point I learned the lyrics to a ton of their songs. So now you have a basic list of the songs I'd like to learn and the reasons why. I will be adding more as I go on in the project.

I will be adding more songs to the list as time goes on.

Update #1

So I think all I have to do before i get this started is get my guitar lowered. So we'll see how this goes. 

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