![]() Not to mention, he sang for the first time while playing on stage. The song is also really fast and has 16th beat strumming patterns, which even I at 2 years still find too fast. The song also incorporates many barre chords, 7th chords, suspended chords that have quite a stretch. Many beginners stick to open chords for their first 4 or more months, and will struggle with barre chords for twice as long. ![]() While Mafuyu practiced despite the pain due to his own reasons and pressure from the band, guitar still requires a lot of time to develop technique and really get those chords into muscle memory. As I said in my intro, it takes a good month to develop dependable calluses that allows you to play for more than 15 minutes. MAFUYU: While he is dedicated, his song is impossible for 3 monthsĪs for Mafuyu, 3 months really isn’t that much time at all, for anyone. She may have had to create her own guitar parts too. Mio plays the bass and can instruct her on how the guitar works, but she wouldn’t know chords or other techniques, so Yui is self learned. Yui does not have a teacher nor another guitar player in the band to learn from. She is quite ditzy and forgetful, and initially struggled to sing and play at the same time. She did learn to sing initially, but became sick just prior to their performance.Īdding on, while Yui did come to enjoy playing guitar, she doesn’t have any strong personal motivations. Thus, Yui had about 6 months to learn rhythm, mostly barre chords, and a few licks to play Fuwa Fuwa Time. The band’s first performance was Fuwa Fuwa Time at the school’s festival, which tends to take place around October or November. Her only experience before this point was playing the castanets. ![]() She was pressured to join the light music club at the beginning of the school year (around March) since they needed another member and Yui had to join anything. Look Into The Characters And Timelines Yui From K-ON!! Our books always started with beginner songs like Hot Cross Buns and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, then it would slowly increase in difficulty, covering more notes on the instrument, increasing speed, and maybe incorporating a technique or two. I took band class for many years in school, and many students can pick up a new instrument, produce a decent sound after a few weeks, and then start learning songs. If they were playing other instruments like clarinet, saxophone, or tuba, quick growth isn’t that surprising or unrealistic. (You can check out my ratings for musical animes in this article). So when I watch animes that have musicians, I like to keep an eye on their growth and technique to see if it’s realistic or not. This is one of the hardest things to learn that many beginners can’t do well within their first year…. Your finger is too soft and it’s not natural to keep it straight while your other 2 or 3 singers are still fretting other notes. Oh, and I haven’t even touched on barre chords, in which your whole index finger needs to lay across all 5 or 6 strings and press them down, acting like a secondary nut or a capo. But one needs to get to the point where they can do up and down strokes quickly and in time with a beat. Because one will be so focused on just getting their chords down and having them ring out properly, strumming tends to be neglected by many early on. Getting your pick to glide across all these strings evenly will take some work. Holding a pick? It’s such a small, flat, glossy tool that is prone to slipping and falling. To do chord changes quickly, it will require months of repeatition for muscle memory to kick in. Speaking of chords, even if you have memorized the shape in your head, it’s going to take a while for your hand to get used to contorting in these weird positions and it can actually be quite uncomfortable, causing a lot of cramping and wrist pain. Source: (And this is only half the fretboard) This is also why scales and chords can be played in various places across the neck. Many have played for years but still don’t know where all the notes are on the fretboard. There’s over 130 notes available on the instrument, and many overlap with the same pitch but with a different tone. Next, you’ll have to learn about notes and the names of the strings as you will need to tune your guitar. You will need to endure the stinging pain for a few weeks until your calluses come in. Our fingertips are soft and you need to press down on these thin sharp strings. When you first pick up guitar, you may say to yourself that you’ll practice everyday for an hour, but after your first minute, you’ll realize that’s not going to be possible.
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