Progression Video : 2 Weeks Learning a New Song. Warmup Blues.

I wasn't sure if I was going to post this or not. I have to push myself out of my comfort zone though, so I decided to go for it. My playing still has a really long way to go. This is a two week progression of me learning Warmup Blues by Rick Payne from the Simply Fingerstyle Blues song book.

The first day I can barely play it. If you just want to see the end result you can skip to the end around the 6 minute mark.

A few notes about the songbook this song is from. This was exactly the type of songbook I was looking for. I'd like to shoot for learning 2 songs a month out of this book. Most of them seem right at my skill level, and I'm loving the sound.

Honestly, at this point, I just want to be able to sit down and play a few songs when I feel like it. I'm still practicing my theory lessons in the background though because, well I want to be able to play my own songs and not just someone elses. Still, for me this is the perfect book for this summer. I'm probably going to order a couple other titles from this author as well. He has different books for different styles of fingerstyle blues. I'm really psyched about finding these!

With that said, I'm looking forward to finding another song to learn. I've also noticed that the other stuff I'm working on is improving as I learn this stuff. That's probably the good thing about learning other peoples music, you're also learning how songs are formed, picking patterns, keys, etc. I think I'm learning a lot from this book.

Anyway, that's where I'm at with all this!

This is post 13 in this months #HiveBloPoMo