smoke on the water

Went for my third guitar lesson yesterday and my tutor started to teach me to play the intro for this song - Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple. I was like OMG, isn't that a really difficult song to play? Apparently my tutor categorises his students into the juniors and the seniors by age not skill level and I actually fall into the 'seniors' group and Smoke on the Water is sort of the test song for us. I am so not going to be able to play it even with a thousand years of practice lah!

On the basics, I learnt another chord - the A minor, bringing the total number of chords I have to practise daily to five, and to scale the notes on all the six strings.

Learning a new instrument is a tough business!