My family has been blessed with a few musically inclined people. My grandparents, all their kiddos(4 boys)except my mother, most of their kids and my little brother. I have always wanted to learn guitar, not to be country music legend, but be good enough to grab a guitar and start playing something that didn't sound like a dying cat. I have tried to get my brother to teach me, but there is something in my DNA that won't let that happen. We have tried a few times with utter failure. So my job has made it to where I cannot hardly make it to lodge because of a training schedule till the end of the year. My days off I have been bored so I decided to pick it back up. I called the local guitar shop to scope out some lessons. I called a got the prices and was stoked. Later on I decided to call and schedule lessons and come to find out the teacher doesn't do lessons on my days off. Ugh, so I am going to teach myself. Masonry taught me that if I practice everyday that I will see improvement in the long term. I enlisted the help of a highly reviewed online guitar teacher at justinguitar.com. He is pretty decent at explaining the little things that keep me held up instead of hurrying to the stuff that really confused me. I actually played a song that sounded good today. Well it sounded good to me, and it may be a while before you would agree. It was progress though......
Have you taught yourself something similar? Once my calluses build up, it should be easier. Any tips and trick will be appreciated.
Have you taught yourself something similar? Once my calluses build up, it should be easier. Any tips and trick will be appreciated.
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