I must say that some of you make a LOT of assumptions about what I'm doing (or not doing, as the case may be) with regard to practicing. And while I understand that you're hearts are in the right place, that doesn't mean that your assumptions are correct.
Trust me when I say that I have a pretty good idea what I'm doing. I'm 40, not 14. I know that there'll be a lot of drudgery (to use roachboy's term) involving rudiments. I also know that the web is full of places where a beginning musician can find drills for working on rudiments. That's why I didn't ask for that type of help.
I merely asked for some suggestions with regard to simple songs to work with as I develop my skills. As I said above: "I have to ask because 95% of the stuff I have is much more complicated than I can do right now".
roachboy, this:
"the reason i say all this is that i have found it important to cultivate a way of practicing that is about exploring possibilities in addition to learning the basics. you need both, if my experience is any guide at least. learning the basics simply requires that you put in the work. the payoff will be when you get control over them and play with other folk and it sounds as you would prefer. but the work can be drudgery at times, and so having another area that you might think of at first as being playtime is good as well--and it may turn out that over time these will start blurring into each other. the playtime stuff is still practicing--you're still working the same skill set, still pushing toward co-ordination and through that toward independence of your hands and feet--but it can keep practicing from getting too closely associated with drudgery alone."
pretty accurately describes what I do when I'm not working on a song.
oh, and ratbastid, I've been considering a metronome.
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