pick up my guitar again.

. . . from the corner of my room.
I’ haven’t played in about ten years – fo’ shame !
and I was quite good come to think of it.
I’d love to play like Gabriela from Rodrigo y Gabriela – she’s amazing!

Ever since I created this goal I haven’t taken any initiative on completing it. I think it might have to do with the guitar I have, its a 3/4 guitar meaning its smaller than normal guitars and its usually meant for kids. I should still practice on it though, I shouldn’t use it as an excuse. I haven’t touched my guitar in over 2yrs, how sad, when I stopped I was actually getting better.

i did earlier and it was actually cool cuz i started remembering my rythems i made

I was cleaning out my room (just a few days after putting “pick up my guitar again” on my list here on 43things) and I found a pack of un-opened strings for my acoustic guitar.

My acoustic guitar has been sitting in the corner of our living room for over a year gathering dust. The more dust it gathered the more ashamed I became that this beautiful instrument never got to strut it’s stuff – so the more I didn’t want to pick it up because I knew that anything I played wouldn’t sound half as good as it did before.

But with my new pack of strings (that I’d bought last time I convinced myself I was going to pick it up and never did) I marched downstairs whipped off the old dulled strings, dusted and cleaned the poor neglected thing, put the new shiny strings on and hammered out a few chords.

It felt great.

Do not put it off; guitars have a soul, and a distinct voice of their own. Let them sing :)

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