Comments | bloobert: Look ma! I'm a rock star!

bloobert

Look ma! I'm a rock star!

Jul 16, 2005 13:15

I got my guitar! It has that woody new guitar smell. I like it. It's a Yamaha FG700S. Nothing fancy, but more than enough for these novice fingers and ears. When I moved to Oakville about ten years ago (hmmm, eleven actually...) I had a guitar and practiced because I didn't know anybody, and it was a thing I could do on my own. Now, my motivations ( Read more... )

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kamomil July 16 2005, 12:26:49 UTC

having a guitar is now an excuse to get together and play

Wow! That's pretty cool. That is ever so cool.

arashi_kaze July 16 2005, 12:37:23 UTC

I had a guitar as a kid, but never learned how to play. A lazy bastard was I. I still is, mostly.

kamomil July 16 2005, 15:17:33 UTC

My laziness was the sort that made me too lazy to play with other kids, but I enjoyed practicing piano. I was too lazy to practice too much, but I did like doing scales.

kamomil July 17 2005, 09:33:40 UTC

So? Have you practiced already? I'm sure you spent the first day playing everything you knew. What's your next thing you are going to learn?

bloobert July 17 2005, 16:28:24 UTC

I have practiced a little... I've learned so far that I forgot what little I once knew =) Not entirely, but some. However, I'm now able to play a bad F and fsus9? or something. I don't know what many chords are called. I need a beginner's class I think. I'd like to learn a little about notes and scales, and maybe finger picking. I just always used to strum with my thumb, so everything sounded horribly muted. But I liked the feeling of banging away. I'd like to be able to bang away with the pick, and not have it sound garish and obnoxious, like it does now ( ... )

kamomil July 17 2005, 19:19:25 UTC

meh... tabs? it's mostly 3 chords... I can sit down & hash them out for you no prob. But if you want to try, they're mostly in the key of D, so D, G and A. Lies is in Em ( ... )

bloobert July 18 2005, 20:37:57 UTC

The pick I've been using is .88, but maybe I need a lighter one. Your talk of 'keys' is confounding to me =) I know nothing. I'm not even sure what to call the strings. I know the 1st and 6th string are E, but that's about it.

Yes please... if it's not too much trouble, I wouldn't mind tab of Sunrise and Impatiens (my faves)...

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