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Sorry, I just need to get this s**t off my chest, this whole online pass has been getting to me and really making me hate everything about gaming and the way it's going, so I might as well get all my thoughts down and hopefully move on, who knows. For anyone who doesn't know, online passes have been brought in for all sony published releases, and require the user to put in a one time use code on the from the box to access any online features. EA are also doing this with some of their games, Battlefield ...

Dam this week has been a rough one for learning, having nearly thrown my guitar out the window and going through several picks, I think I'm through the worst of my first major hurdle.

So at the end of last week I'd decided to give up on learning Everybody Hurts by REM as I was having some serious issues with Barre Chords. They were simply beyond my level of playing and something I felt would be best if put on hold for the foreseeable future until I get the hang of the basics. I was ...

So it's the end of the first full week of my attempts to learn the guitar, so here's my thoughts on the last weeks progress...if you can call it that.

As you may remember I was attempting to learn Everybody Hurts by R.E.M. A simple enough song based around arpeggios of the D, G, A and Em chords, or so I thought. First most of the song, this is correct, just these foru simple chords, but for the bridge the song decides to try and screw you over by introducing F#m and Bm Barre Chords, ...

So after initially deciding I was going to make this blog a daily post, I changed my mind to weekly. There will be more to write about over a weekly period, and just like when trying to lose weight, it's better to measure yourself on a weekly basis as the improvement will be much greater and therefore more motivating. I'm going to try and make a new post every Sunday, on the previous weeks progress, so tonight's post will be a recap of everything so far, since the I started last Thursday, the 16th. ...

Writing a blog has been something I've wanted to do for a long time now, not only because I think it would be interesting to see how my opinions change on something over a period of time, but also because I enjoy writing. The main reason I've never jumped into it before is because I've never really had anything to write about that I thought others would possibly enjoy reading, but now I feel I've found something, tracking my progress learning to play the guitar. I've wanted to play the guitar for ...