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Chapter 6

Talk, Sketch, Prototype

“Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.” —Jimi Hendrix

When you learn to play the guitar, you have to learn scales, chords, chord changes, strumming patterns, and fingerpicking. You build these skills (and others) so that when they’re combined, you can play songs and, eventually, use what you know to make your own music.

If you’ve gone through the Build Skills section of this book, you’ve put in quite a bit of practice. Now you’ll play some songs and, finally, make your own music. The songs will be already-completed chart challenges that you can practice on. The music will be your own data and ideas put through the process that will ...