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So what changed?

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So when the guitar landed on my doorstep last December, I went through the same process I had already gone through twice: Play songs using the A, E, D, C and G open cords until I got bored, stumble through others using barre chords until I get frustrated, and attempt to follow various lesson sites somewhat randomly until the guitar ends up in a closet and I'm on to something else. I got theguitar in December, and by late January I had given up...again.

Then in March I came acro [...]

Here we go again

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I turned 40 last year, and the most interesting gift I got was a second-hand Kay "Star*ter" stratocaster knock-off left on my doorstep by some friends. My wife and I were already in bed when they rang the doorbell and sped off, and she started laughing as soon as we heard it.

"Who was that?" I asked.

"Go look," she responded, with equalparts amusement and resignation.

I had been casually mentioning that I wanted to take [...]