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Project #7: Thoughts after one week.

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Lance Barker
Exploring my own creative expression and building things that help people.

I started learning the notes on the guitar fretboard. Harder than I thought! I have the basics down but I have to keep drilling. I looked around for ideas on how best to learn – there are many ideas on how to do this. I tried making smart cards, which I think may be beneficial, but I ’m not certain I know which method is ultimately the best.

The ironic thing is that I’ve been playing consistently now for about 15 years, but the very first lesson – learning the notes on the fretboard – turns out to be the hardest thing. Learning the notes on the keyboard turns out to be so easy in comparison

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I will need to keep drilling on this.

NOTE: I’m renaming these from weekly projects to simply projects.

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