Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Guitar Woes

Everybody wants to learn how to play the guitar these days. Maybe it's the Dashboard Confessional cord pounding, or the Latin finger picking making people want to play this frustrating instrument. Even I want to play (because of Dashboard)!

A few weeks ago I invested in a book titled, Learning to Play Guitar. The book is actually much better than the title. The exercises are accompanied by music theory, which makes learning boring theory not so bad. I can already play some simple tunes like Oh to Joy, and even some chords. Switching between C and G7 is becoming better and better for me, though that F is difficult.

This is going to be a slow process, but it will pay off when I'm serenading women all through town. The portability of the guitar will allow me to go around town serenading. That is why I chose it over the piano.

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