Saxophone Day/Peanut Butter Lover's Day/Harvest Festival (Arkansas)/Fall Festival (Georgia)/Oyster Festival (North Carolina)/OysterFest (Maryland)/I Love Nachos Day/Halfway Point Of Autumn
2004-11-06 @ 3:19 p.m.

Wow. For the first time since I joined Guitar, I strummed chords. Not just one or two chords as part of a bar in a piece, but an entire song. Okay, so there were just a handful of chords in the whole song, but it counts. There is hope for my left-hand chord changing after all! Now I need to get the strum patterns right. I still can't barre properly though, because the chords never sound clearly. Especially the Eb on the sixth fret, which I suspect my fingers are too clumsy (and large) to switch to rapidly. Ah well, have a couple of practices more to work everything out. Still need to get the hang of the F-G-F and D-C-D progressions at the beginning of Jota Aragonaise. I'm done with the first volume of Pinter!