Strum strum
Written by Annie on July 24th, 2009On this beautiful cloudy day I am sitting in my house, determined to learn how to play guitar.
I have an acoustic one from when I took lessons when I was younger. And then I quit, before making substantial progress. Earlier this summer I put “learning to play guitar” as #12 on my “Super Summer List of Things to Do” and I plan on living up to that, or at least trying.
For the past two hours I’ve been trying to figure out notes, chords, and strumming technique, with the help of the Internet and an old guitar book. I don’t know much, but I do know that I wasn’t born with any natural talent.
Oh, and what’s more is that my fingers hurt! A lot. I don’t know how guitar players do it, maybe after a while you form calluses on your fingertips or something… But those steel strings hurt. It even hurts to type now. Thank god it’s only my left hand, because my right hand’s fingertips have suffered through some mild dermatillomania for almost a year (go search it up).
I’ll hopefully have some decent chord transitions figured out by the end of the day.
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Annie,
If you just put guitar as your #12 things to do. I suggest you to play Guitar Hero;-))
Since u play piano, you should not have problem with the music, start with a song with a simple major.
BTW, tune your guitar before playing
enjoy
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Haha, I’m more of a Rockband person..
A lot of my guitar playing friends told me to tune my guitar too. I don’t have a tuner, so I thought my inevitably out of tune piano would work, but I think I just made it more out of tune. Oh well. Thanks for the advice!
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Ooh good for you. I’d love to learn to play the guitar!