Yeah, that sounds like what I'm doing. I know it will take time, but I would rather sit and practice to get it right than to end up playing sloppy and not be able to fix it. Thank you for the downloadable link. It will be a great help.
That's the way to do it.
I've had quite a few students and one of the things that takes the most time (and is the most difficult) is correcting their bad habits. If you don't develop them then you don't need to later spend time fixing them.
I have a new student. Well, sort of new. They'd never played before and it's such a treat to not have to correct bad habits. She's truly a joy to instruct and is coming along very, very well.
So, I'll add this:
Don't try to hurry it. It's like people who want to play fast. Don't. Start slow, learn good form, learn to be exact and precise, and the speed will build itself. Playing guitar is mostly muscle memory. Train the muscles right - right from the start.
Are you warming up and practicing drills? One of these days, I should write a bunch of them for people - but the video has some nice examples.
Yeah, I'm doing the caterpillar until I'm sick , then I'll move over to chord progressions for a bit.
I may be able to get my brother to help me out. He used to play, but he messed up one of his hands and didnt do the physical therapy to fix his fingers properly like a dumbass. Hell, putting a guitar back into his hands might make him work on it; I think I will give him a shot.
If it matters, I was in a pretty bad motorcycle accident and messed up my hands and wrists. Because of the complications, I declined surgery and opted for physical therapy. We were able to work my playing into my recovery and I made a full recovery in short time. Within three months, I was mostly back to normal and this was after shattering some bones in my hand and breaking both the ulna and radius on my fret hand and the ulna on my right.
Django Reinhardt played with two useless fingers, because they were burned in a fire in his wooden wagon. He managed to do with those two fingers enough to get onto my list of guitarists better than Hendrix. Well, he'd also loop his thumb over.
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