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Sunday, November 15. 2009Not an impulse buy, I promise My new guitar. A lot of people have been telling me that this seems really random - since when did I want to learn to play guitar? It's understandable, given that I didn't really talk to that many people about it ahead of time, but I've been looking to take up another musical instrument for awhile now. I wanted something more portable than the piano, which I played for a couple years way back when, but still relatively common and popular (so not the ocarina in my closet). The MSU trip I took awhile ago was really what put "guitar" in my head. The instant I got there, we all sat down in the middle of a basketball court and like four different people all pulled out guitars, and everyone was having a great time. I thought, why not take it up myself? So that thought rolled around for awhile, not really going anywhere, until I was walking around Percopo one night and saw that this one student was selling a slightly used Epiphone with a bunch of accessories. I pondered it for about four seconds, then got in touch with her to make the purchase. Twelve hours later, I wound up with the guitar (which is still in excellent condition - "slightly" used is a gross overstatement), along with case, tuner, capo, spare strings, picks, and a bunch of "teach yourself guitar" books. Not bad for $70.
Since then, I've been taking about a half hour a day to sit down with the Internet and try to learn guitar. It's a lot harder than I expected, and my fingers are killing me - you have to press really hard on those strings. But I'm building calluses and actually learning notes and chords, and so far it's fun, so I don't really mind that much. And maybe the next time I go to MSU, I can bring my guitar along as well. Trackbacks
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You should consider integrating Facebook connect into this blog so I can comment with my Facebook account.
Matt, I'd like to, but this blog software is pretty outdated and crufty and not that well-supported (the last full release was in January, and the last beta is from August). I'm actually thinking about moving the whole thing over to another platform. Would you happen to know offhand which software supports FB connect? (Has to be hostable - I don't want to move to a .blogspot.com or .tumblr.com domain.)
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