paulthenurse
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So since I was 18 I've wanted to learn to play the guitar but I never got around to it. So a couple of months ago I was at the dive shop getting tanks filled and there is a music store next door. I load the tanks in the truck and walk into the music store and walk out 20 minutes later with a guitar. So I futz around for a month trying to figure it out and decide that that won't work so I go to the music store two blocks away and sign up for a month of lessons. I had lesson #4 yesterday. I dropped my pick three times in a half hour lesson, twice into the freakin' hole in the guitar. I've been working on "Birthday" by the Beatles since day one. After three weeks of lessons I played it for Al and asked her if she could guess what I was playing. Not a clue. Don't blame her, I wouldn't have been able to guess myself if I didn't have the book in front of me.
MY fingers just don't want to do what this dude is trying to get me to do. They don't work that way. I practice for a while and I have cramps in my left arm for an hour My fingertips hurt. I actually miss sometimes now when I start IV's on challenging cases at work cause my fingers have lost that magic touch. I can bang my hands on the table with the best of them but I just can't bend my mind around anything more complicated than a One and Two and Three and Four strumming pattern. You want me to skip a three and it just won't happen.
And the whole time my boy John is telling me how great I'm doing. "You got it. That's good. Keep that up. Nope, move your third finger, yup, that's right. Next fret, there you go... Great!"
Either this dude is stone deaf or he drinks himself to sleep at night.
And then, to make things worse, he takes my guitar and plays a few Clapton licks on it while he's tuning it for me. (Yet another fundamental skill I have yet to master), so I can't even say it's a cheap POS guitar.
/rant I need to go practice then go to bed.
PTN
MY fingers just don't want to do what this dude is trying to get me to do. They don't work that way. I practice for a while and I have cramps in my left arm for an hour My fingertips hurt. I actually miss sometimes now when I start IV's on challenging cases at work cause my fingers have lost that magic touch. I can bang my hands on the table with the best of them but I just can't bend my mind around anything more complicated than a One and Two and Three and Four strumming pattern. You want me to skip a three and it just won't happen.
And the whole time my boy John is telling me how great I'm doing. "You got it. That's good. Keep that up. Nope, move your third finger, yup, that's right. Next fret, there you go... Great!"
Either this dude is stone deaf or he drinks himself to sleep at night.
And then, to make things worse, he takes my guitar and plays a few Clapton licks on it while he's tuning it for me. (Yet another fundamental skill I have yet to master), so I can't even say it's a cheap POS guitar.
/rant I need to go practice then go to bed.
PTN