Musicians

My tutor has me building toward my making/recording my own backing tracks..I'll be looking to pick up a looper pedal in the next few weeks....What you tell me is very much the same as he is saying...

In the Practical Music Theory book I'm going through,chord theory comes right after the interval stuff..I'm not yet comfortable with calculating intervals to the point that I want to move on....I'll spend a fair amount of time on theory today,as I'll be letting my arm rest...I'm told not to expect to absorb everything in one pass through the book..That I'll go through it a few times,each time understanding more,but that each time,especially the 1st,I should have some grasp of the material before moving on..And I don't..I sit with pencil and paper for an hour,working out intervals in perhaps 15 note/problems and get roughly half wrong....Mostly from calling one minor when it should be diminished or visa versa..Then there is the double sharp,double flat thing which just maked my had spin.... Hopefully by this time next week I'll have started chord theory and will know a little of triads and diatonics..

I'm ashamed to admit I've been very lax on the ear traning..It's be easier for me if I had a "jam buddy",but other than the 30 minutes each week with an instructor,it's just me and the internet...One site I frequent heavily has an exercise where it plays notes that I write down then check the answers after....I don't do it nearly often enough,and haven't done it in some time now...When I was using it,I did great with A-E-D major and minor and ok with C-G major....

That,with all the things you've done/learned,you find guitar the hardest,fits with what I've heard from several quarters..That guitar is the hardest instrument to learn to play,but the easiest instrument to learn to play badly.....

I really,really appreciate others,such as yours,perspectives and input..Thankyou SO much!!..