You don’t need to learn much to sound fine. It’s hard work, but you can do yourself a lot of favours by getting some good lessons from a good teacher (learning on your own usually sucks) and by getting some advice on buying a playable guitar. Some guitars are inherently hard to play (a.k.a. “character building”). This can discourage you so much, when you are learning, that you quit.
Play to enjoy and you will enjoy to play.
May 09, 2005, 07:40AM PDT | 0 comments
i studied Russian at adult evening class once a week for several years, but in the end I got an A grade GCSE (something 16 year old school kids get). The problem is you reach a point where you need to immerse yourself in the language and culture and speak Russian with natives everyday for like six months. I didn’t get that far. It’s very easy to forget what you have learned if you don’t use it.
May 05, 2005, 06:51AM PDT | 0 comments
I was in the right place at the right time, knowing the right people and was asked to write Streaming Media Demystified. They say writing a book changes your life and that was true for me, only the changes were a mixed blessing. On the whole, it was worth doing and I developed a taste to write more, though I don’t have a current publishing deal for other things.
Apr 13, 2005, 05:12AM PDT | 0 comments
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