Flying Fingers and Musical Degrees

Okay, I practiced for a week and still my stubby little hand did not cooperate when it came time to demonstrate my finger dexterity for the class I'm taking. Part of my homework was to simply practice single notes with my four fingers on four frets going up and and back down again. I hope that the more I practice, the more my fingers will fly!

Anyone who is following this blog or reading it, knows that this is a music blog. Right now, I happen to be taking guitar lessons on line. My teacher is excellent (Ed Pingenot) but will not be available forever because he is studying to be a doctor! For awhile, he will be a starving intern so seek him out if you are interested in online guitar lessons. I' m sure he only has a few slots.

Having such a talented person as my teacher, I did not want Ed to see my old strings or my smudgy guitar, so, I put some new strings on my guitar. I always feel upgraded after I do that anyway. Plus, my daughter wants to learn to play her electric guitar as well so she and I both put new strings on our guitars together. That's kind of cool that she is learning guitar too. I feel that I've empowered her. I want my children to love music.

Tonight's lesson got to the place where he was showing me how to transpose keys using the Nashville Number system to decide what note/chord would be used in two different keys so I can more easily do this, should I play with others.

He has also used a term that I'm not familiar with that I would like to become familiar with: fretboard logic. Right now, it's kind of scary but you will all know when I am actually doing new stuff. It will be awesome!