Week in Review

This week, I practiced the first 10 pages of Leavitt's Modern Method for guitar. At my end-of-week self review, I first played the exercises at 90bpm, making sure that I was getting a good tone throughout. Then I played the final two exercises at increasing tempos, finally ending at 186bpm. I don't think that I could have played these exercises quite that fast at the beginning of the week (particularly the chords), so I'm happy with my progress.

Tomorrow will begin a new week's set of exercises, so I'll be picking out somewhere between 5 and 10 more pages to learn.

I also realized that I can live without buying a new Les Paul just for learning. However, it does seem that I'll buy a new guitar next week anyhow; I'll scale back from the Les Paul to an Epiphone Dot Studio. They look pretty clean and simple, and the feel and acoustic tone are simply grand. I didn't play a studio model, I played the full model, but I can infer from that what a decent Dot Studio will feel like. The guitar center near my work will be getting 4 in sometime next week, and I'll get the one that feels the best.

This was a really good week of practice. I know that some weeks won't be anywhere near this good. For now, I'm very happy with the decisions that I've made about my learning and the progress that I've made along those routes.

I'm still not sure what my goal is in all of this. I know that I want to play guitar better, but I'm not 100% sure of why. Perhaps I'll learn that while I'm learning to play.