Status Updates From Solo Guitar Playing: Book 1

This is the second time that I’ve worked through this book - I have played the guitar on and off for a good few years.

At the moment, I’m on page 51 working on exercise 27. I’m using an acoustic guitar rather than a classical guitar which may be a little bit more difficult to play and has a tendency for ringing the notes out a lot more.

As I have worked through this book before I fully recommend it.

The seventh position~ (there is no sixth position)

I'm stalling around "the fifth position" and looking to get supplementary lessons in other books/material in the meantime. The exercise pieces for each different position have so far been kind of unpleasant and dry, and I still dislike the fact that a fair number of pieces require an accompanying person to play as a duet. Also weird that he finally talks about scales and arpeggios only in the last third of the book??

The fifth position~

The third position~

On lesson 12 rn, but the rest of the material is ramping up in complexity so I suspect I'll be slowing down shortly.

It’s good. I spend 10 mins a day on this as part of my regular guitar practice. I focus on one exercise at a time, start the metronome at 40 and only increase by 10% once I can do it 4 times in a row “perfectly”. Once I complete 80 bpm I move to the next.

This will take a while... I'm practicing for about 10 minutes a day, and trying to play each exercise perfectly 4 times through with the Metronome at 80 before advancing.