{"id":4810,"date":"2017-11-05T04:27:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T12:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4810"},"modified":"2017-11-05T04:27:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T12:27:04","slug":"playing-my-song-phu-my-vietnam-11052017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4810","title":{"rendered":"Playing my Song \u2013 Phu My, Vietnam \u2013 [11\/05\/2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progress report:<\/p>\n

Lo\"\"ng overdue progress report I should say! I swear I have been practicing, though perhaps not as often as I would like. I keep letting things get in the way, and that\u2019s really not good because I really want<\/em> to practice.<\/p>\n

But, I had no excuse at all today, as the port we\u2019re in has little to offer unless you want to pay a rather large chunk of change for a two hour transfer into town and since I\u2019m not working until much later in the afternoon\u2026so after lunch while Amras was at rehearsal I pulled Strange out of her case, tuned her up and went back to work.<\/p>\n

My fingers may still sting a little bit but they are definitely improving, and the song that seemed totally impossible only a few weeks ago is going swiftly from \u201cI can stumble through it\u201d to \u201cHey, I can almost strum this properly, and wait, did I just do that whole run without looking at my fretboard? I totally did just do that whole run without looking at my fretboard!\u201d.<\/p>\n

Amras has been starting to teach me basic strumming patterns \u2013 before this I was just moving from chord to chord without any sense of real rhythm, just concentrating on getting my fingers in the right place. For the most part I\u2019m still<\/em> just concentrating on getting my fingers in the right place, but it would be nice to be able to really play<\/em> just one song when I get home \u2013 so I\u2019m trying to learn to at least strum that one thing. It\u2019s much harder than I had first thought, as my ears can tell what my hands want to do but it can\u2019t quite make them do<\/em> it yet.<\/p>\n

But I can tell that I\u2019m getting<\/em> there, little bit by little bit, string by string and chord by chord, I\u2019m getting there.<\/p>\n

And I absolutely love<\/em> it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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