Week 5: Same as the previous week, except better

For this week, I practiced nothing but You Give Love a Bad Name. This is the progress I've made so far:

I can now play each individual section decently except for the solo which I didn't attempt in the video. However when I try to play the whole song in one go, I tend to choke. Regardless I choke much less now than I did a few days ago, so I'll take that as a sign of improvement.

The way I practiced was by playing along with a recording of the song I found on Songster which also shows when to play what by having you follow a tab sheet. I wanted to record the above video with me playing along with the recording on Songster, but I didn't have a loud speaker to play the recording out loud. I'm sure there's a way to record the audio without a loud speaker, but I'm too lazy to find out how.

I've decided that I'll continue to practice this one song until I can play it the whole way through. The solo is giving me some trouble because it uses fast hammer-ons and pull-offs which are proving to be a real pain at the moment. I'm confident I'll have it down by the end of week six though.

Current rank: Guitar newbie