52 Extras: Better at Guitar

After eleven straight weeks of playing guitar, I've actually started to get a bit better. It doesn't take me hours and hours to be able to play the little songs I write. I'm now able to play through them pretty well after just a couple of times. This marks the first week that I shot my 52 Songs video in one take, without having to try over and over, which is a BIG improvement. lol. I've also started playing around with new chords, key changes, strum patterns, strings, etc. Hopefully that will be reflected in future songs.

Last week you may have noticed that I tried playing the piano. It wasn't that great, but I was pretty shocked at how easily it came to me. I did take two years of piano in high school, and three years in college, and then I taught high school choir which required LOTS of piano time, but still I never thought I'd be able to do that. Hopefully there will be more of that to come as well.

I'm taking this song writing class with emerging composer Adam Gwon, and I'm loving it. It's challenging me to write songs for characters in musicals in different scenarios and I'm sure I'll post the results of those in future weeks. So stay tuned. Now I'm off to catch up on my shows....