The Highlight: Maybe learning Misery, it’s a great song. The Easy Part: Apparently forgetting shit The Hard Part: Barre Chords, at least not as bad as I feared though. OK so this week saw a major introduction into my guitar playing repertoire, something I have been fearing since I first started playing as I can remember my friends bitching about it 15 years ago. Barre Chords. OK so I didn’t start crying in my lesson which is one...

The Highlight Playing Queen! The Easy Part: Riff’s aren’t that hard. The Hard Part: Reading off Tab at the same time as playing. This week I had my first real go with an electric guitar, Kirsty lent me one of hers (a beautiful Epihone) and wrote out some tabs for Queen’s “Now I’m Here” which of course, is an excellent song. The song features a lot of power chords in the intro so the first challenge was...

The Highlight: The first song I ever learn and it’s one I like The Easy Part: G Major, FTW this one’s easy. The Hard Part: Holding a pick for the first time. So I began my lessons with chords, as I assume many people do, mainly approaching rhythm and my first song was Greenday’s “Good Riddance, the central rhythm to Sweet Child of Mine and the same portion for Wonderful Tonight which I embarrassingly decided to forget was by Eric...