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How to play the Classical Guitar

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status update till now. 2008-06-03 12:32:50
In a blink of an eye, a term has passed. Its is like i went for an intensive course on classical guitar playing. Suddenly, i am supposed to play the third and fourth string, and then in a flash, we are doing silver bells, then comes flats, sharps and the still confusing harmonic. wow. At this rate i should be able to play a simple piece by the end of the course.

But on the other hand, i am still struggling with the sight reading, as i usually have to count the bars, check to see if it is a sharp or a flat, map the note to which string and fret, which is extremely slow, not to mention i will get lost easily, when i look at my guitar and then back at my score.

and lastly, practising ten minutes a day seems like a easy thing in the past( the start of the module), but now, there are projects that are catching up, and each practise session(for me) now is at least an hour. There is just too many things to practise! Sometimes, i even practise in school right before class!

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This Weeks blog 2008-05-05 13:44:44
here goes.
We learnt the second string and chords right? Changing chords need some fingers to move around on the fretboard; i can't do that smoohly yet. I got to switch 1 finger at a time. Guess i need more practise. The notes on the second string is starting to look like pictures to me, i need some thinking before i can understand them! Guess i need more practise.

Oh, i complained to my brother about my fingers hurting, and he said "wait till you play electric guitar".

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Last weeks Blog 2008-05-05 13:34:08
haha. was supposed to blog last week. But apperantly, i was too busy.

last week, when i wanted to practise my guitar, but when i took out my guitar, i found out that my 1st string broke! Thus i could'nt practise. There was project submissions that week and time was tight.

I finally got my string on Thu and had to cram like 1 entire week of practise into one day. Ha.

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