Lots to report today

So, I had planned to wait until my electric guitar came in to make any report, but too much has happened.

Let's see...

My fingers have continued to mutate.  I'm starting to think guitar strings are radioactive, ala Peter Parker's spider.

Added the G chord today.  Didn't have any problems with it, but haven't really changed from it to anything else yet, just done it on it's own.

Also, my dirty little secret - I've been trying F.  Not a crappy half-ass F, mind you, but the big, bad, bar-chord F.  I know it, but can't play it yet.  Sure, if zombie nazis busted into our place and said I needed to play it or they would eat our brains, I could probably get out a strangled version of it, given enough time, but I can't play it yet.  It's not on the list for another couple of weeks, so I plan to try it a couple of times a day, every day, just to try to get used to making that shape, and hopefully make learning to actually play it easier.  And less frustrating, considering I won't be spending a week doing it and nothing but with no other progress.

Electric guitar in transit - it had a "exception" on Monday.  I have heard that "Exception" is FedEx code for "We dropped it and ran over it with a golf cart, and want to delay it for a bit until we can make it look less mangled".  I have no idea if that is true, but will find out tomorrow.  It was apparently only delayed by about an hour, so hopefully it's nothing.  The description said it was about paperwork, but if it were me, and I wanted to delay for a while to make it look less pranged, that's probably what I would say - "paperwork needed to be looked at(fix fix fix)".

And, the big news - I made music today.  I was getting sick of butchering Bob Marley, so I did a bunch of things - I switched songs to "Peggy Sue", watched Justin's video that details the strum pattern and wrote it down, and ramped up the metronome to 120 BPM - 30 BPM faster than I've ever played before.  Or, if you prefer, a 33% speed increase since last night.

The result was a slow, but easily recognizable, version of Peggy Sue.  Was it perfect?  No.  Would it get me booed off stage?  Probably, but not right away.  It was musical, and not terrible.  It was an awesome breakthrough.  I didn't think I could do it at that tempo, but lo and behold...

Again, there were some flubbed chord transitions, but for the most part it was pretty good.  I'm chalking this up in the "win" column.