Last night was my first lesson in nearly a month. Either my teacher or I have both had to cancel for one reason or another.
My first official piece of repertoire, Romance, was at one point proving such a challenge to learn that I began wondering whether my teacher felt like I was wasting his time because it seemed as though I was taking forever to learn it.
Well, my committment to practice and determination to learn guitar as paid off more than I thought. My teacher has opened his own store. Unfortunately, he had to drop most of his students because he no longer has time to teach them. He chose to keep me and one other student on his roster. We had our first lesson in his shop last night, and man was it fun!
There are a few basic pieces from Christopher Parkening's book he's had me learning in an effort to work on adding musicality to my playing. I showed him what I've been trying to do with crescendos and chord progressions. He noticed I have a tendency to increase my tempo and fumble a lot as I get louder. He wants me to work on maintaining a consistent tempo and improving my left/right hand coordination on crescendos.