It’s not much, but it’s mine!
I managed to get it clean, restrung and learned how to tune it. I’ve spent the last couple weeks just practicing the chromatic scale and just started learning some basic chords yesterday.
I started with the trumpet in high school and then went on to do digital music production as a hobby for ten years and even managed to produce my own album.
I realized a lot of the tracks on my album had guitar elements and it dawned on me that I could eventually work to make those my own actual recordings rather than synthesized.
So I’m already familiar with the slow burn process of learning a new instrument and I’m already seeing massive progress from the first time I picked it up. Here’s to the next decade of learning a new instrument!
This is exactly the type of stuff I plan on drilling for the first few months. There are a couple songs I want to try learning after a little while, but I’m not trying to jump into anything rhythmic yet. Just going very slowly and feeling for when the note starts to sound right.
I’m also making sure I have good form by checking the tuner occasionally for the individual strings. I’ve already trained myself to use a lot less pressure and I’m getting much better sound.
I plan on starting with things like hand drills, not so much focusing on music, but rather muscle memory. Once I can get used to the hand positions and feel of the strings, then I’ll start working with it from the mindset of music and start trying some riffs/songs I want to learn.
I’m looking at it almost as much as a tool as I am an instrument.
Bonus afterthought edit:
I also should mention that with my digital music production came the ear for what I want something to sound like. I’m way more focused on getting good form and a good audio capture than I am on getting my mental badge for playing a song poorly.