Days 5-8: The familiar sensation of losing sensation in my fingertips

They burn!

Can't really tell from the picture, but my fingers are red and starting to callous up from practice.

I've finished the 'easy' lessons and I'm working my way through the medium lessons. They progress nicely and I hate/love the "100% 3 times in a section before letting you progress in a lesson"

Keeping up practice is really easy. I haven't had this much focused practice, well ever.



Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (92%)

I'm pretty happy with the progress in a week. I went from 80% on hard to 92% with Yoshimi.

The are three major improvements from Day 1.

• I'm staying in time with the beat. 
• Much faster at chord changes (especially barre ones)
• I'm using different fingering for chords depending on what is coming. Example: I'm playing a stretch of Emin (022000) and I know F is coming (133211). Instead of using my index and middle fingers for Emin I use my ring finger and pinky. I then slide down to (033000) and then place my middle finger on the G string and barre along the top.

Ground Control to Major Tom

Now that I've mastered Yoshimi, I'm working on David Bowie's Space Oddity. It has a lot more technical difficulty (for me at least). I'll write up a post tomorrow when I work through it again, but the song uses the entire fretboard whereas Yoshimi uses only the first 3 frets with no riffs.