Day: 9 Picks and Lesson Progress

Lesson Progress

There are 18 different lessons for pro guitar - I've skipped around a little bit between medium and hard after finishing the easy lessons. I haven't tried any expert ones yet.

• Easy
• Note Basics - Done
• More Note Basics - Done
• Basic Finger Exercises - Done

• Medium
• Intervals and Octaves - 2/3s Done
• Power Chords - Done
• Some First Position Open Chords - Done
• Hammer Ons and Pull Offs - Done
• More Finger Exercises

• Hard
• More First Position Chords - Done
• 3 Note Power Chords and Barre Chords- 5/10s Done
• Strumming Patterns - Done (oddly enough they don't tell you the patterns, I was familiar with all 3 of them in the lesson Down, Down, Up, Up, Down, Up for example)
• Holding a Chord and arpeggetiation
• Scale Exercises

Pick Favoritism

You can start to see where pick scratches from playing. I've been using 4 different picks and my favorite by far is the Cool Pick Juratex (light). I only had two floating around and I'm waiting for some more to arrive. They have a sandpaper grip and the light one molded to my thumb with enough playing.

I've also tried .60mm and .80mm Dunlop Tortex picks - I like these for my other guitar, but I feel like I'm fighting the string dampener (the black foam thing right below the beck) when strumming.