Matt's Guitar Problem

The Numbers 3h48m practicing Are You Gonna Be My Girl x1 (90% learned), Time of Your Life x3 (10% polished), Lonely is the Night x2 (50% learned) Hard Day's Night x1 (35% learned) Blackbird x1 (performable) Space Oddity x1 (performable) Signs x1 (performable) Technique x1, Jam Session x1 Current count: 4 perform-able, polishing 2, learning 12 This week was an interrupted but productive week.  "Time of Your Life" is pretty definitely sticking.  I jammed with a friend for the first time in years, and am thinking that I should go identify more rhythm guitars skills and approaches.  Did a little bit of setlist rust-cleaning too.  I went to GC yesterday and tried the LP again, and realized that it feels great, despite some measure of impostor syndrome.  I walked out with fresh strings and cleaning cloths, but- -but ordered the LP online after taking a look at the finish on a few of the offerings.  I like the guitar a lot, and I'm not going to tie ...

The Numbers 5h31m practicing Are You Gonna Be My Girl x4 (80% learned), Learn To Fly x4 (80% learned), Technique x3, Fly By Night x2 (30% learned), Wanted Dead Or Alive x2 (25% polished), Time of Your Life x2 (90% learned) Current count: 4 perform-able, polishing 1, learning 12 Needless to say, this round of the Weekly Recap is a little different, with less focus on time spent, and more focus on how much progress I feel like I'm making, with how many songs.  I got thinking that my goal isn't to put hours in on the guitar, but that I want to be able to entertain and to play a lot of different songs.  More songs will intrinsically mean more styles, and more rounding out of my guitar playing. The format and focus change was sparked after last week's moment of impostor syndrome.  I've been lusting after a Gibson Les Paul for a while here, and I decided to scratch the itch by going and playing it.  When I actually got to the store, I took a lap through the rest...

Jeez, it really has been over six months since I last focused on playing the guitar. But.  I'm back!  I'm again wanting to learn a bunch of new songs, and this time it's as much to fight off Impostor Syndrome around my guitar skills as not.  I'm definitely able to play well, but I can only play a handful of songs from start to finish, with or without the music in front of me.  Unsurprisingly, this means that my practice goals are still to learn new songs. The current learn-it set list is "Fly By Night" by Rush, "Learn To Fly" by Foo Fighters, and "Are You Gunna Be My Girl" by Jet.  I'm going to mix in a Beatles song after I noodle through a couple of them. Last season's practice really did pay off.  I'm comfortable performing (singing + guitar) "Blackbird", "Dust In The Wind", "Signs", and "Space Oddity".  "Wanted Dead Or Alive" is still pretty close to something I can play...