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[tiggz]

no, Veronica. not a pony, a guitar. yeah, i just bought that. i'm the worst impulse shopper ever. i blame foxant10. i'm all signed up for lessons and everything. what happened to clothes shopping? i don't know. i'm seriously not going to be able to eat out for, like, two months though.

it actually wasn't that bad. i got the guitar, gig bag, stand and beginners chord book for $200. the lessons are $20 once a week. my next door neighbor is a musician. so i may see if i can get him to show me some things after i get comfortable with it.

here's hoping it's not as difficult as piano proved to be and i learn how to do this. i've always wanted to play an instrument and if couldn't be piano, guitar is the next best thing. plus, it's really pretty. *g*

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[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

Like the piano, once you learn one chord, The basic chord structure will usually work in various places up and down the neck.

Also, if you've ever heard the phrase, three chord rock, that's how easy some songs, real songs, are to play.

[tiggz.livejournal.com]

foxant10 and i were discussing just how easy some of the current music is to play. the older stuff is more advanced. isn't that crazy?

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

hehehe, though it really depends on the artist. I just got the new Tool CD and that, not so easy. ;) A lot of the music I;'ve always listened to has been a bit trickier than the average which is possibly one of the reasons (well after severe laziness though) that I'm not a better guitar player. Most of the music books I have are by bands like Soundgarden, Hendrix, Rush, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Joe Satriani. It slows things down when half the songs (mainly Led Zep and Soundgarden) are in different tunings. Soundgarden has one cool song called "Mind Riot" where every single string is tuned to E. I can't even attempt it since I'm afraid I'll pop some strings trying that tuning. hehehe But then songs like "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty are extremely easy.

[foxant10.livejournal.com]

power chords!

surprisingly, a lot of the good rock is only three chords.

[aka-becker.livejournal.com]

Power chords take care of most metal. I think the end of 50% of all old Iron Maiden songs was a three chord power chord riff where it goes (fret postions on E,A&D strings respectively) 5,7,7 - 3,5,5 - 5,7,7. (Or 7,9,9 - 5,7,7 - 7,9,9) My old band in highschool started doing that at the end of every song just because, even .38 Special's "Hold on Loosely." No, no one actually watched up play this as our biggest basement crowd was 3 people. I was the singer then. I'm way off topic and babbling. Too much caffeine. ;)