Day One

Hours:

9:30 - 11:30

1:30 - 4:50

Total: 5 hours and 20 minutes

May 9, 2022

10:30 PM

 Today I jumped right into learning a song that I have loved for many years, "We're Going to be Friends," by The White Stripes. The song, written by Jack White, is a very simple acoustic song. I play the bass guitar and the drums in bands at school, played violin growing up, and learned a some piano as well last year. I have always wanted to learn guitar as well, but this is my first attempt at it. It is a challenge due to it being very painful for my fingers after just one day, and hopefully blisters will form quickly. Today I began by learning the individual chords of the song. 

These chords, G, C, D, and Cadd9, are the only ones used for the majority of the song, except for the addition of an A chord in the bridge. My second task was learning the order of the chords. 

I finished off the day by learning the order of the chords in the bridge, and the strumming pattern of the whole song. I have now learned the whole song and just need to work on perfecting it.