I have completed the first free acoustic guitar lesson! Yes, me, who never, ever “gets around to it”.
My life is a graveyard of plans and ideas that I’m “getting around to”. Things like growing my own vegetables; seeing Stonehenge, the Pyramids and the Colossus of Rhodes; booking an aromatherapy session and going for a horse-ride, to name just a few.
That’s when I’ve finished all my work, cleaned the house, weeded the garden, shopped, cooked numerous meals and seen some clients, so that we have enough money to keep the wolf from the door…
No extra time was forthcoming, so I made time. Boy, was it scary! At first, the guitar lesson felt like a waste of time (terrible crime in my book!), and I felt really guilty, sneaking off into the spare room like a felon when there was Work To Be Done. But then, when isn’t there? So I refused to feel guilty any more, and actually began to enjoy it. By the end of the lesson, I could play a chord. The A Major chord. And it didn’t sound like someone was strangling the cat, either!
I was proud of myself; it really did my ego good. You should try it! So, flushed with my success, I downloaded Lesson 2 – Learning to tune the guitar.
This took a bit more reading through to get the idea, but it was clear and quite easy to understand. Tuning your guitar is absolutely essential if your playing is to sound any good. The idea here is to tune each string from the one above it, so you don’t need a tuning device – a very clever idea.
I have to say, I needed a bit more time to get this lesson right, but the guitar sounded okay when I’d finished. But then, as you know, I’m certainly no expert – a professional guitarist would probably have shot himself at the thought of tuning a guitar this way.
I just want to be able to play a nice tune to sing along to. I couldn’t ever be a professional guitarist.
I don’t have the time ?.
Pass me the next chapter on learning to play the acoustic guitar!
All the best,
Carol J Pearson
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