Week 7, here we go again.

My guitar lessons were postponed for about two weeks. Life becomes busy and other classes had taken over my schedule a little bit so I have been a bit bummed about practicing guitar. 

With my lessons being pushed off, I really felt like I got stuck these two weeks in a repetitive loop of always messing up on the basics. I would practice for just a few minutes before getting mad or upset at myself from messing up. So I honestly gave up on practicing quite a bit because of how frustrated I would get. 

Before my guitar lesson I went and tunes up my guitar and then started to practice. Again, I found myself getting frustrated and just wanting to give up. The past few weeks I have just felt stuck and like I should be farther along then I should be and being here is a waste of time because I have not been able to practice to my full ability. 

I would finish tuning and then just give up on practicing farther. I decided to sit in the lobby until it was time for my lesson just dredging what the lesson would be like.

I would walk into my lesson and my professor would ask what this week has been like. I was honest in saying that I am getting upset trying to practice. He would respond with an, "Of course you do, everyone does!" He would go on to explain the guitar is one instrument where your hands are doing two very different things and the instrument is literally facing away from you. It is not suppose to be easy but I do not need to be mad at myself for not picking it up in a month. 

Most of the lesson was talking about what playing the guitar realistically looks like and how it is hard and practice is not always easy. It was things I needed to hear again because I had been taken most of it to heart. The only thing we would practice is the basic chords again just to allow myself to refresh and take a break. I should not have been jumping into the song expecting to play it, let alone play it perfectly, right away.

This was a short one, but I needed to take that time to go over the basics and just be honest about where I am. I do not pick up instruments immediately even if I know how to read music. It is a learning process and that is okay!