Reed's Guitar Journey

Work Hello everyone! I am one day into the second week of my journey and I have begun working on the difficult techniques that I plan to learn. I began learning about Barre Chords and tips for making them clearer and less painful. In addition I began learning about hybrid picking which included learning a "Chicken Picking" exercise. Apparently "Chicken Picking" is a term for hybrid picking two notes at once. Lastly, I began learning the chord progression with Tablature and the hybrid picking pattern. I used the metronome to find my baseline speed (bpm)* to see how much improvement I need.  Enjoy these videos of my painful first attempts at the new techniques! The Goodies  The Tablature for the first 2 Minutes of Stairway to Heaven    This was Written by Michael Markey, my Guitar Instructor Speed of Song: 143 bpm* My Beginning Speed: 92 bpm* What I assumed "Chicken Picking" would be What "Chicken Picking...

🎸Musical Background🎸 Music has always been a large part of my life. From banging on a toy drum in my basement at age five, to learning to play the trumpet at nine, to starting the guitar last July, learning music has been a necessity. While making music has been a passion of mine for as long as I can remember, I could never hold interest in any specific instrument for longer than a few years. Even though I have only been playing the guitar for around seven months, I have found more joy in it than any instrument I have ever attempted, and I feel that it could become a life-long passion of mine. Currently I can play intermediate guitar songs using strumming, basic picking, and fingerstyle. I have played songs in difficulties ranging from Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple, which contains arguably the easiest riff ever written, to Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton, which is an intermediate fingerstyle song. I can read Tablature and play along with it for the most part. I can oft...