I’ve decided not to just let this blog go now that my Spouse has returned to normal life so for right now you’re going to have to listen to me babble about learning the Guitar that I bought back in March.
It’s going slowly, to say the least. Slowly is the operative word, I don’t have music in me, I'm forcing it in, and it will be slow. My friend and I took my guitar in to Music 6000 just to get it looked at and get a minor problem fixed and the guitar tech hooked it up to a giant amp and just wailed away on it while chatting with us about the guitar. And it's something I'm envious of . It's probably just as hard for someone like that who has music in them to understand what I'm dealing with as it is for me to understand how someone like him can just pick something up and play it like that. I’ll never be able to do that. I’m lucky to barely understand 'key of'. :-)) And yes, it's frustrating as all hell. For some reason I want this badly, to be able to play music. I want it way down deep inside of me and one thing having cancer taught me was to just DO things. Why my soul wants this is beyond me, it's not for me to understand, I'm just along for the ride anyway.
I’m doing ok, with ‘slowly’, although I’d love to be able to actually play something recognizable. Ok, I take that back, I can play Happy Birthday, all on one string from the Tab. (LOL). And I can play a few chords: in the key of D I can play D, G, and A7. I don’t totally understand ‘key’ but I can see that those chords sound better together. I can also play A, and C reliably, although my C chords are still ‘plinky’ sounding on the first try. I can do E, E7 and G7 if I can peek at the chart first. Surprisingly B7 sounds ok once I get all my fingers there, but I see no hope at all for F :-). And then I go look at Tabs and boy does Prince use some weird-ass chords! I do ok with simple strumming, I could probably play any ‘cowboy’ song (LOL) but for now I’m busy butchering a very simple version of “King of the Road” and parts of Stings’ “Every Breath You Take”. At least the kids recognized Happy Birthday.
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