Learning Guitar
I cut my fingernails off. They’ve always been an extention of my finger and it feels weird not having them. Tapping my fingers feels weird. Picking my nose feels weird. Scratching my head feels weird. I’m starting to get used to it.
I keep my fingernails long because they make my fingers look longer. Scratch, that. I keep them long because they can pass for looking nice even if I’m too lazy to cut them. I’m not particularly attached to them. I don’t file them or paint them– I’m always impressed by people who take the time to paint their nails when the polish only seems to last a day. Two, tops. I don’t have time for that kind of tedium.
I do, however, have time for a whole different kind of tedium: learning to play guitar.
It’s why I cut my fingernails off in the first place.
My new acoustic guitar on a floral papasan. Matt dubbed this my hippie workstation.
Matt’s told me his friend is learning to play the violin. Which, I thought was pretty damn cool. Lots of people (ahem, me) will say that they want to learn an instrument, but how many times do you hear of people actually doing it?
I should learn to play the guitar, I told Matt. I’ve always wanted to do it. Then I can jam.
You should! That was his response. If someone had told me that they should learn an instrument I probably would’ve told them that they wouldn’t actually do it (I’m a dream-crusher like that). Matt was pretty positive about it though (he’s cool like that).
So after searching online for an inexpensive acoustic to learn on, I bought this bad boy from Amazon on the cheap.
It’s a Jasmine S35 by Takamine, if that means anything to you. I’ll keep calling her Jasmine after my friend named Jasmine who is herself a pretty mean guitar player.
I have limited musical knowledge from my years studying piano in grade school (which I was never really good at anyway) and my finger dexterity is poor at best so learning guitar is pretty tough. I’m using some youtube videos and websites to learn and they’ve been pretty decent so far.
Since Monday I’ve learned about 6 chords that sound buzzy and it takes me way to long to switch between them, but hey, it’s something. I actually like practicing and so I’m betting that I’ll get lots of hours in until I’m playing guitar, Level: Asian.
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Looks like we are going to need to YouTube video of your skills soon
For sure! Well, maybe not soon, but eventually.
This sounds so fun! I’ve always wanted to learn to play the guitar, but never quite got around to it. Good for you!
Kudos to you for doing something you’ve always wanted to do! Learning an instrument is such a great talent!
Haha, yeah!!! I would totally teach you if I were nearby. I tried violin but gave up because I found the bowing hard and it takes much longer to learn to produce sounds that are…um…tolerable. My next order of business: ukelele.