So this week I have been still working on my final project of learning to play the guitar. Here is a picture of the guitar I am learning on:
I am so excited I have learned 3 notes: D7, G, C. I still have to take time to pause and think about where my fingers go but I still know 3 notes! 
So just a few things, first off my fingers are so sore! This is a painful project I am undertaking. I am seriously thinking of going to find some finger pads or something.
I have mostly learned to play Jingle Bells, and for the most part you can kind of tell the tune. My issue is with trying to read music, when the note goes to a high line but it is still suppose to be the same note I don’t know what to do with my fingers.
I think this coming week I am going to pick a new song that I really want to learn how to play and start working on that, but Jingle bells incorporated 2 of the 3 notes I learned so I thought it would be a good starting place.
My mom bought me a little guitar learning book, it is a little kids book, but hey I have to start somewhere, and that is the only reason I have been able to learn 3 notes so far. So thanks mom!
So just a little more on the back story!
I am a very strict live on a schedule type of person, very type A. I get stressed so easily, in fact, I am not going to lie, I am stressed out pretty much 24/7, 7 days a week. It’s all I do. I don’t know what I stress so bad but I can not seem to stop myself from stressing. One day, I was talking to one of my professors about a test I had to take for my education program and I told him I spent alot of winter break studying for it. When he asked why, I told him because I wanted to pass. He proceeded to tell me that it was easy stuff that I knew on the test and shouldn’t have stressed about studying as much as I did, then he went on to tell me I needed a hobby, which is so true! I spend most of my time going to class, work, homework. So my thinking was that learning to play the guitar and then actually being able to play it could be my new hobby, its posing to be more difficult than anticipated- so as of not this is not turning about to be my stress relieving hobby. I got really excited to be able to hear jingle bells but then trying to figure about the notes and finger placements is tricky and it makes my fingers hurt which all of this together makes me stressed that I won’t be where I want to be with learning to play the guitar but the end of the semester. But I will have to keep you posted on how my stressing out goes. Will I end up pulling my hair out or will it help me relieve some stress…we will see!!
Here is a small recording (its a recording instead of a video because I am already showered and in my pjs sorry!) of my 3 notes and what I have of Jingle Bells!
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