I didn't get a chance to practice as much over the weekend as I was planning on. My goal was to spend half an hour on Friday, 45 minutes on Saturday, and then a full hour on Sunday. I want to slowly ramp up my playing time because I know my fingers are going to kill for a while until the calluses start to form again.
I managed to get the full half an hour in on Friday despite my wife calling me on the way home from work and asking me to do last minute grocery shopping for dinner. My parents were coming over to celebrate my mom's birthday and grocery shopping and dinner prep kept me busy until they arrived. They stayed late, and while they were still over I started thinking about giving up learning the guitar. This was obviously silly, since I hadn't even picked up a guitar yet. All these thoughts about how I won't be able to find time to practice and all the video gaming time that I would have to give up flooded my head. I thought about hopping on the blog and deleting my first post before anyone read it, and then just going on with life as normal. (On the plus side, as of Monday no one else has read it, so I could still get out of this without any Internet embarrassment)
I successfully fought those ideas though, and at 11PM I pulled my electric and acoustic guitars out of the closet and tuned them both. I pointed my browser to Justin Guitar and found the first video lesson, which was on the D chord. I spent the remainder of my half hour playing the D chord and then seeing if my fingers could move between E,G,D,A.
My hand strength is gone, my calluses are gone, and my brain doesn't remember any of the songs I used to know, but after the short practice I felt like my fingers were performing almost as well as they had four years ago when I last played.
There is hope!
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