Date: 22-January-2008, 10:45 Subj: Guitar... hmmm Filter:    Public Tags: music

I have been in the midst of a lull. Puzzles and games. No projects, unless you count the Nysidra card revision, which is on hold. I'm pissy about it.

Anyway, while on a lull, I think of things, things I could do.

Currently, I'm thinking, "I'd really like to play an instrument that doesn't cost over 2k to own."

I played piano. While I could back into that... I'd like to try something else.

What about the guitar? I mean, I liked guitar hero. Guitars are a dime a dozen. My cousin even has one under his bed. I could find a tutor for one of those easy.

I know SHIT about guitars. Okay, some are acoustic, others are electronic. Lets say, I know very little for a person who is thinking about playing one.

So I fired up a website I use to preview music and have been listening to guitar styles. If I'm going to find a teacher, I should probably find one that specializes in a style I like. I won't enjoy learning if the music I'm playing sucks to me.

Classical sounds nice if it's right. I'm totally a Rodrigo y Gabriela fan. Some jazz is okay, but most of it grates my nerves. Some of the classical stuff tweaks me too.

I loaded this one album sample, "Art of Fingerstyle Guitar" the genre is Folk / Country. I've liked every 30 second sample that's played, and I'm grinning like, Seriously B? Folk country? Most of the samples have the guitar standing alone with maybe a bass. I have no friends playing instruments. Plus, it sounds fun, light, playful, and creative.

Oh hey, who do I know like that?

Maybe it was just the album. So I've loaded another guitar album from the same genre.

0.o I'm really liking this stuff. *listening to Pat Webb*

Okay, one more, to be sure.

Oh, and I am very sure I want to play acoustic guitar, not electric.

I'm sold. *listening to Mike Seeger*

Funny enough. Folk / Country is the first guitar style that I've heard that sounds more like getting me toward Rodrigo y Gabriela level of superiority.

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Date: 22-January-2008, 13:59 Subj: Highly Impulsive Behavior Filter:    Public Tags: music

I feel like I need to stop, but I can't come up with the desire to do so.
Fingerstyle has my heart.
I've already looked up a place in the area that sells used guitars.

I found some nice video tutorials for fingerstyle play.
And just by looking at the guy playing... hardcore practicing ahead.

But I ain't skeered. I went from playing Mary Had A Little Lamb to Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" 3rd movement (Presto agitato) in the span of .... *counts* ... seven years, and I wasn't even practicing every day.
And I have never owned a piano! (I practiced on a keyboard, shifting keys when I had to play 'full scale' songs.)
Oh. It's in me if I want to bring it out.
But seriously, a guitar? NOW?! Today?! *sighs*

I think my Beloved has a guitar too, but I don't think he'll let me play it. *shrugs* Best to have my own anyway.
Right now I'm just hoping to make it home.
I could at least ask if I could play his guitar first, right?

I had a teacher with piano though. I didn't teach myself. I'd go farther faster with a tutor.

OH! AND!
I'm left handed.
I don't even know which hand I would play with. ... *wiggles / bends hands in the air* ... I don't even know.
*whimpers*

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Date: 22-January-2008, 15:33 Subj: I didn't make it. Filter:    Public Tags: music

I has an acoustic guitar.

\m/ ^_^ \m/

Fortuitous too, because the place I picked is moving, and was keen to get rid of stock, and slashed the price on a used guitar. He even threw in freebies and stuff (tuner, strings, picks), and I bought an adult book for beginners, and they offer classes in a month at their new location.

Kismet. Seriously.

*snickers*

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