Guitar PFC
I’m still not sure of what finally pushed me over the edge, but last week I bought an electric guitar and an amplifier. I’ve been playing a lot every day, and while I’m not good yet, I’ve passed absolutely horrible behind.
Previous attempts at fretted and stringed instruments have failed miserably. The paradigm is so very different from keyboard or brass instruments, I always got stuck early on and never managed to break past it. I think I’ve got it this time, and perhaps I will someday advance to Guitar Sergeant or Guitar Lieutenant.
I have something to say about what passes for music theory on the guitar, but I’ll save it for another day. It’s a sort of frontier theory, and is perhaps to what I learned as late Medieval Latin is to Classical Latin.
May 17th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Play freebird!
May 17th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
I should have placed a bet on “play freebird” being the first comment. But, if I stayed here with you, girl, things just couldn’t be the same. ‘Cause I’m as free as a bird now, and this bird you can not change.
May 19th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
cool—-black and white and played all over!
June 28th, 2006 at 7:47 am
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June 22nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
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