Wee! Back to Lessons!

Back to real lessons with Tyler, we were playing with harmonics and i learned that for any given fingering of a note you can go over a string and down 5 frets and get the same note in a sometimes easier to reach place. D never did teach me any BFS while Tyler was on vacation but we did have some fun goofing off at his place after work Sunday and he wants me to show him "Tears In Heaven". That's kinda cool. It was fun to just trade the guitar back and forth showing each other shit. I really want to learn some BFS but it can wait til he's in the mood. So it's back to "Wish Upon a Star" and i need to learn how to add in the chords as i go. Means I have to learn some new chords. Oh, and I finished the song i was writing, it's dorky, and short, but I even added in a bass part and some flanger effects and i think it turned out pretty good considering i don't really know what I'm doing. And the first time I cut it I couldn't play it all the way through so i was trying to cut and paste in Cool Edit but in reality it took less time to just learn it and redo it. And it was stupid to have written something i couldn't play through anyway. The bass part is cut and paste though, because the bass is still in hiding and I didn't have much time with it when i got it out that day. Sean tried to sing it for me, and that didn't turn out too bad either, but we're still messing with it.

Rolling slow-down

I'm stuck, stagnant again.

Tyler is on vacation so i don't have lessons and although D said he'd teach me some BFS songs it hasn't happened yet. I'm messing around with BuckCherry's "Sorry", Disney's "When You Wish Upon a Star" (last lesson from Tyler) and the intro to Puddle of Mudd's "She Hates Me" but it's just messing around, there's no real satisfaction in it. I keep turning back to "Tears in Heaven" for the satisfaction of being able to actually play something recognizable. I want to tackle Nickelbacks' "Rockstar" but i need to figure out drop D tuning first. I think I'm just chicken to de-tune that far after breaking a string on the little ones acoustic while trying to re-tune a really out-of-tune guitar (twice). Anyway, i feel stuck again and i know it's just temporary but it still don't like how it feels. I wrote a corny song last weekend at work and i should work on the music part but i just can't get started yet.