Reflection 2

This week I finally found the chance to borrow my friend's guitar, since I found that mine was more of a children's toy version. She also gave me a beginner's guitar book, a tuner, clamp, and her own chord book. The new guitar sounds much better than the one I own, and I also learned how to tune it using a chromatic tuner that you attach to the guitar. I continued to practice the D, A, and E chords, and improved greatly in changing from one chord to another. To practice changing chords, I did "One Minute Changes," in which I see how many times I can transfer back and forth between two chords in one minute. Doing this each day helped me change chords much more quickly than when I first started and helped me memorize them. I learned how to strum using the 4:4 pattern, and used that in trying to play a short and simple song. I did two exercises called Single Sound Recognition (SSR) and Chord Progression Recognition (CPR), which improved my recognition of chords by ear. Once I felt comfortable enough with those three chords, I decided that it was time to move onto stage 2. I learned three more chords: D, A, and E minor. I then practiced how to alternate between the three. This week seemed a lot more productive than the first, and I hope that the next following weeks will go the same.