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Learn to play guitar

Marco Ferri

@marcostrums

14 steps Sep → Jul

People of this journey42 people

You were there at the beginning — and for 9 steps along the way.

Sofia, Kofi and Ren kept showing up.

You and 4 others were there at the beginning.

31 people are here for the finish.

The journey, step by step14 steps

Final stepJul 6

Played my first song front to back, no mistakes. Ten months from bruised fingertips to this. Thank you to everyone who kept cheering.

Kofi and 30 others stepped with Marco

Step with his final step and you become a Celebrator on this journey.

You've been part of 9 steps on this journey — and the finish is happening right now.

Final rehearsal. Ran the whole thing front to back four times. Three of them were clean. Tomorrow I record it for real — whatever comes out is the one that counts.Jun 24

Ren and 28 others stepped with Marco

That impossible song, now at three-quarter speed. The chorus finally sounds like the chorus instead of a rumour of it. Nearly there.Jun 3

Kofi and 27 others stepped with Marco

Picked a song that's plainly too hard for me, on purpose. Slowed it to half speed and started chipping at the intro one bar at a time. Ambition first, ability catches up.May 14

Sofia and 25 others stepped with Marco

First time playing with another person — a friend on the cajón keeping time. Turns out staying in the pocket with someone else is a whole second instrument to learn.Apr 22

Ren and 22 others stepped with Marco

Recorded myself and actually listened back the whole way through. Painful in the first thirty seconds, useful by the end. You can't fix what you won't hear.Mar 30

Kofi and 23 others stepped with Marco

Played for my parents in their living room.Shaky hands, wrong bridge, forgot the second verse — but they sang along anyway, and my mum pretended she wasn't crying.

Reached with Sofia and 21 others

Barre chords. The wall every beginner talks about hitting. Tonight the F finally rang out clean instead of buzzing like a dying bee. Twice, even.Feb 10

Ren and 19 others stepped with Marco

Restrung it myself for the first time. Cut my thumb, tuned it a whole step sharp twice, and finally got there. It sounds brighter now, or I'm imagining it.Jan 15

Sofia and 17 others stepped with Marco

Played by the tree on the last night before everyone travelled home. Half the notes were wrong and nobody minded — they were too busy singing over them.Dec 20

Kofi and 14 others stepped with Marco

Learned my first whole song. Three chords, played badly, but all the way through without stopping to find my hand on the fretboard.Nov 28

Sofia and 15 others stepped with Marco

First clean chord change. G to C, over and over, until it stopped sounding like a mistake and started sounding like a decision.Nov 2

Ren and 13 others stepped with Marco

One week in and my fingertips have gone numb at the edges. Someone in the comments said that means it's working, so I'm choosing to believe them.Oct 5

Kofi and 10 others stepped with Marco

First stepSep 14

Bought a second-hand acoustic off a guy two neighbourhoods over. It smells like someone else's house and one tuning peg sticks. Fingers, meet strings.

Sofia and 8 others stepped with Marco

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