Project Playing Guitar

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When I was 12 years old, I asked for a Guitar as a birthday present, and my parents gave it to me. Then I started to do classes for 1 or 2 years, and when I was 14 years old I stopped the classes and never returned to do it again. 

Why I am saying this? To be clear, I stopped the classes because I was embarrassed to be heard by someone, I always had the sensation that I needed something perfect to deliver, if it was not perfect I didn't want anybody to hear it. 

I was obviously frustrated because my guitar didn't sound harmonious, now I know that it will sound horrible at first because I am learning! But just because I know that I am learning it doesn't make it easier to accept that fact and it keeps being frustrating. Nowadays I still being embarrassed to be heard and to make some mistakes. So, in the past, this sensation limited me, because I didn't practice at home to my guitar sound better! I never felt that I learned it.

For changed my belief that I don't know how to play a guitar, this year in June I bought a secondhand guitar and decided to start learning how to play it again. But I had the guitar for almost 4 months and I haven't tried to learn how to play it until now. Shame on me. 

Writing here about my things, and what I am making, motivated me to create this new project and beyond it, what motivated me was to just stop seeing this beautiful orange guitar without use as wasted money.

I wish one day I could play fingerstyle music (I don't know how to translate it), and be happy with the result. And play and sing some Brazilian music and some Spanish music too, I like the way that some guitar sounds in Spanish music. 

I will try to put some of my training stuff on Instagram and the YouTube channel to have a progress line of my learning. I want to say that I am not comfortable sharing my failure, but I really want to see my progress over time. 

I wish I could start this week with baby steps into the guitar-playing project. I will use an online guitar course in Portuguese that I bought this year too. 

I will post my progress here, trying to write about how it is going, if I started, how was my relation with the course and the guitar, etc. 

Just to be clear, I am not a total beginner, I know some guitar chords by heart, but to play the rhythm I don't remember so well. Has been a long time since I learned it and played some whole song on the guitar. 

I don't know musical theory either, but I want to learn it too. 

One more project to keep on track here at Duda Makes Things. 

XOXO

Duda

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