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I've been playing guitar since my first year of university. I tried to play way back in Grade 3 but I remember it was hard on the fingers and I just never stuck with it. I'm glad I picked it up and stayed with it, though, it's been one of the few constants in my life over the years that entertains me, calms me down, excites me, a whole bunch of things. :)
Perhaps what I like about it the most is the way it lets me interact with music, one of my favourite things in the world, in many ways. Either here at home I can just strum and pick along with songs playing on the iPod or computer, or I can be playing with others at a house party and playing and singing along with everyone else. Not to mention the many different talents shows and such I helped out with in both my Burke House days and in law school. I have a recording of one of the Burke ones, not my best performance though. Would kill for a recording of the year we did weezer's Say It Ain't So and Cake's version of I Will Survive. I am dying to know if I nailed that pinch harmonic in the solo to the former (so hard to tell on stage, we didn't have the best sound set up you see XD) and I remember sitting down and tabbing out the solo myself for the latter. Good times!
It's a good feeling, contributing to that sort of thing, and I can't sing for shit so at least I can contribute that way. :D Which begs the question, do I take the guitar with me tonight? Hmmm. Hallowe'en is always tricky, with the costumes and whatnot, but maybe I will.
I have my good ol' acoustic guitar (Betty), my electric (Veronica), my bass (no real name, should play it more!), and also a banjo which I can't really play yet. I mean, yeah, I can fake my way around it, but I need to sit down some day and relearn the chord fingerings, get some thumb and finger picks for it, and learn the right hand technique. That's on the to-do list for today when I hit the city, to hit up a music store and get those picks. Maybe some new strings too but, uh, changing the strings on that thing looks intimidating, man. x.x Might just bring it in to someone to do it, heh, and since I haven't been playing it much it's not in dire need of new strings just yet anyway.
I've been playing guitar since my first year of university. I tried to play way back in Grade 3 but I remember it was hard on the fingers and I just never stuck with it. I'm glad I picked it up and stayed with it, though, it's been one of the few constants in my life over the years that entertains me, calms me down, excites me, a whole bunch of things. :)
Perhaps what I like about it the most is the way it lets me interact with music, one of my favourite things in the world, in many ways. Either here at home I can just strum and pick along with songs playing on the iPod or computer, or I can be playing with others at a house party and playing and singing along with everyone else. Not to mention the many different talents shows and such I helped out with in both my Burke House days and in law school. I have a recording of one of the Burke ones, not my best performance though. Would kill for a recording of the year we did weezer's Say It Ain't So and Cake's version of I Will Survive. I am dying to know if I nailed that pinch harmonic in the solo to the former (so hard to tell on stage, we didn't have the best sound set up you see XD) and I remember sitting down and tabbing out the solo myself for the latter. Good times!
It's a good feeling, contributing to that sort of thing, and I can't sing for shit so at least I can contribute that way. :D Which begs the question, do I take the guitar with me tonight? Hmmm. Hallowe'en is always tricky, with the costumes and whatnot, but maybe I will.
I have my good ol' acoustic guitar (Betty), my electric (Veronica), my bass (no real name, should play it more!), and also a banjo which I can't really play yet. I mean, yeah, I can fake my way around it, but I need to sit down some day and relearn the chord fingerings, get some thumb and finger picks for it, and learn the right hand technique. That's on the to-do list for today when I hit the city, to hit up a music store and get those picks. Maybe some new strings too but, uh, changing the strings on that thing looks intimidating, man. x.x Might just bring it in to someone to do it, heh, and since I haven't been playing it much it's not in dire need of new strings just yet anyway.
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