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February 19, 2005
Wings... Why Did It Have to Be Wings?
Have been working on playing my guitar again. I've tried to learn to play it twice now taking classes at Evening at Emory, but each time I've lost my momentum. I'm determined not to let that happen, and I think I'm doing a good job at actually making it more of a habit, which is my goal. The book I'm using, The Complete Guitar Player, is pretty good, though I'm using a couple of other books to help supplement since it doesn't have much of a chord chart. I've also been spending a good deal of time in the Guitar section of About.com (hope my time there is worth your $410M, New York Times). There's some good stuff there, but it's just a matter of practicing enough so that every chord doesn't have buzzing or muffled notes. I'll say this, it's a heck of a lot harder than it looks.
It's a good, relaxing way to spend a half hour before bed each night. I do wish I could find a song that you could easily play with A, D and E chords, but there don't seem to be a lot. I'm getting pretty tired of Mull of Kintyre -- I mean, seriously, does my first song have to be Wings?
My hope, by the end of the month, is to be playing Wilco's Kamera, even thought the linked transcriber did a bit of a botch job on the lyrics.
Posted by Lee Clontz at February 19, 2005 1:00 AM