My new guitar method book arrived today, and it looks like it’ll be great. First, it includes all three volumes (it’s the Leavitt Complete Method). While I have a couple other method books (all over 30 years old), they are all the beginning books, and I’ve worked through them. With the new book, I can tell that I’ll be working hard for a long, long time. That’s good—nothing more to buy. (That isn’t to say that I won’t also pull a few things from the internet, too).
As a demonstration, I spent most of last night practicing this song that appears on page 6. It was pretty difficult, though I made some significant progress. The difficulty was maintaining a consistent tempo, so eventually I flicked on the metronome. I’ll have to have some more metronome training tonight.
In other news, I ordered a couple small items from Amazon. While the method book arrived yesterday, two other packages got delayed because of bad weather here. (The snow stopped, but it’s been blowing all over the place by some serious winds.) I just checked this morning, and for some reason UPS shipped both my packages to Kentucky. That makes no sense to me. Why not just hold them until the roads open up again? The only thing I can think of is that they’re out of space, so they put those packages on trucks and move them around just to have some place to put them. It sure seems wasteful, though.
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