March 2025 3-Minute Challenge - Week #2 Posts

[TGNeil]

Hey Everybody,

WJKelleher won our drawing last week and scored some audio downloads of what used to be CDs.

Copy the text below and post your results for Week #2 and we will pull another winner in a few days.

Neil

Username:
Week Ending: Friday March 14

Saturday March 8:
Sunday March 9:
Monday March 10:
Tuesday March 11:
Wednesday March 12:
Thursday March 13:
Friday March 14:

Total Days:
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[carolm242]

Username: carolm242
Week Ending: Friday March 14

Saturday March 8: zero
Sunday March 9: 25 min
Monday March 10: 30 min
Tuesday March 11: 10 min
Wednesday March 12: 60 min
Thursday March 13: 20 min
Friday March 14: 20 min

Total Days: 6
Total Minutes: 165

This week I did more 2 octave major scales ascending and descending in the 5 CAGED positions for warm ups. I also worked on my back pocket songs, and continued learning Kuffner's op 168 no 14, 2nd guitar, I'm re-learning Zangarilleja by De Murcia, did some chord progression theory, and started Sagreras Leccions, starting on #1 and got all the way to # 54 by Friday 3/14.

[rjbertmdphd]

3 minute challenge week 2

Username: RJbertmdphd
Week Ending: Friday March 14

Saturday March 8: 4 hours 3 hours 12 string, 1 hour 6 string
Sunday March 9: 4 hours in the studio, about 2 playing guitar
Monday March 10: 1 hours rhythm practice, 30 minutes on YMMSVH
Tuesday March 11: 1 hour lesson Josh Parker, 1 hour YMMSVH
Wednesday March 11: 1 hour BS&T YMMSV slow difficult chord changes
Thursday March 12: 1.5 hours “You Make Me So Very Happy”
Friday March 7: 4 hours in the studio, about 2 playing guitar: YMMSVH and One Fine Morning. Includes warmup time.

Total Days: 7
Total Minutes: 840

[brennanmichaelj71258]

Username: brennanmichaelj71258
Week Ending: Friday March 14

Saturday March 8: 35 min.
Sunday March 9: 44 min
Monday March 10: 25 min
Tuesday March 11: 45 min.
Wednesday March 12: 1 hour 10 minutes
Thursday March 13: 1 hour 5 minutes
Friday March 14: 1 hour 15 minutes

Total Days: 7 days
Total Minutes: 359 min

Improving on last week with hand strength returning. Still working on finger-picking patterns and resurrected "Is There Anybody Out There?" for a practice piece.

[juval2112]

Username: juval2112
Week ending: March 14

Saturday March 8: 70 mins
Sunday March 9: 60 mins
Monday March 10: 70 mins
Tuesday March 11: 70 mins
Wednesday March 12: 60 mins
Thursday March 13: 65 mins
Friday March 14: 60 mins

Total days : 7
Total minutes: 460

My routine is one day, mainly Pink Floyd, the next mainly Jethro Tull, the next mainly Neil Young, the next mainly fingerpicking and the next all the odds and ends I haven’t played in the previous days. Then repeat. The 10 mins at the end of each session is spent on whatever new (or newish) song I’m learning. This week it’s been Landslide which will take at least another week or so to get into my head.

[older_wrench]

Username: older_wrench
Week Ending: Friday March 14

Saturday March 8: 300 minutes
Sunday March 9: 0 minutes
Monday March 10: 30 minutes
Tuesday March 11: 60 minutes
Wednesday March 12: 120 minutes
Thursday March 13: 90 minutes
Friday March 14: 60 minutes

Total Days: 6 days
Total Minutes: 660 minutes

6 days. 0 minutes on Sunday. The gigantic tree outside the window where I play blossomed on Sunday, so I spent the day sneezing instead of picking.

[rftejerry]

Username:rftejerry
Week Ending: Friday March 14

Saturday March 8: 30 min
Sunday March 9: 30min
Monday March 10: 10 min
Tuesday March 11: 5 min
Wednesday March 12: 6min
Thursday March 13:60 min
Friday March 14: 120 min

Total Days:7
Total Minutes:261

[gbrown2000]

Saturday Mar 8: 28 min
Sunday Mar 9: 35 min
Monday Mar 10: 36 min
Tuesday Mar 11 42 min
Wednesday Mar 12: 40 min
Thursday Mar 13: 46 min
Friday Mar 14: 42 min
Total Days: 7
Total Min: 269 min

Worked on scales, Day Tripper, White Rabbit (fun song to play), All Of Me, and Girl from Ipanema.. Cracked fingertips are almost healed so will be able to fingerpick again soon.

[BBQDad]

Username:BBQDad
Week Ending: Friday March 14

Saturday March 8: 35 min
Sunday March 9: 75 min
Monday March 10: 35 min
Tuesday March 11: 50 min
Wednesday March 12: 40 min
Thursday March 13: 20 min
Friday March 14: 120 min

Total Days: 7
Total Minutes: 375

Been working on learning triads, fingerpicking Neil Young’s I am a Child and Hotel California ( behind on it ). Too many distractions this week -less practice time than I had planned.

[Randy McCracken]

Username: Randy McCracken
Week Ending: Friday March 14

Saturday March 8:(1 hour 15 minutes)
Practice: Blessed Assurance, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, The Goodness of God, Kyrie Eleison, Your Name.
Play through: Lewis & Clark, Up on the Roof
Sunday March 9:(1 hour 10 minutes)
Worship Practice and leading worship: Blessed Assurance, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, The Goodness of God, Kyrie Eleison, Your Name.
Monday March 10:(1 hour)
Practice: And So It Goes, House At Pooh Corner, Only a Dream in Rio
Play through: Windy & Warm, Lewis & Clark (2x), It’s Never Too Late, Her Town Too, Shower the People, Handy Man
Tuesday March 11: (90 minutes)
Practice: And So It Goes, It’s Never Too Late, Come and Let Me Look in Your Eyes, The Lee Shore
Play through: Can You Feel the Love Tonight, Landslide, Sad Lisa, Lewis & Clark, Operator, Blackbird, If You Could Read My Mind, Doc’s Guitar, I am I Said, Stones
Wednesday March 12:(1 hour 40 minutes)
New Song: Song for a Rainy Morning (Intro & verse)
Practice: And So It Goes
Play through: House at Pooh Corner, If You Could Read My Mind, Never Die Young
Thursday March 13: (2 hours)
New Song: Song for a Rainy Morning (Intro, Verse, beginning of Bridge)
Play through: Lewis & Clark, It’s Never Too Late, Copperline, Instrumental II
Friday March 14: (90 minutes)
New Song: Song for a Rainy Morning (Intro, verse, beginning of Bridge)
Practice: And So It Goes
Play through: Fakin’ It, Hazy Shade of Winter
Total Days: 7
Total Minutes: 605