Blog Entries tagged 'beginning'

So what changed?

blavoie

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

blavoie

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 [...]

"The time for hesitation's through..." (Jim M.)

kaldune

Well, I've taken the leap, joined and become a member, completed the enrollment form, watched the "how to use..." videos, and have familiarized myself with the contents and navigation of the site, Sooooo....

It's time to stop "getting ready" and time to start doing. I have my first assignment, I've printed out the TAB, now I just need the courageand determination to sit down and start banging away at it. === Wish me luck.

In the beginning...

teamnitros

Well, I havn't played the guitar sence my last band broke up, bout a year ago (japanese jesus and the angry sensei's). I feel this coming back to guitar was a spawning of a few events that have happened to me over the past few days. one was a bbq over my old bassist's house, which got us talkin bout jamin again. (also picked up my amp). eventualy we were like, We defneed to get back together and jam.

also the following day I was invited to a battle o [...]