relearn the guitar

I took lessons a couple of years back. I loved playing it even though I wasn’t very good – it’s relaxing to switch off after work and use a different part of the brain. I want to get back to relearn the chords and notes I knew before and practice regularly.

I picked it up one night last week. It was nice, playing it. I went through the book I starting learning, because really, I don’t know alot. And I’ve forgotten some of the simple things. I realllllllly need to find the big folder I had of pages from my guitar lessons and tabs I printed out.

I talked to my mom about having Paula give me lessons again. She said anytime. So probably in the next few weeks.

I never was that good, but god I hear songs all the time and I want to know how to play them.

and that makes me feel like I’ve achieved this goal. :D
But really, have been practicing about a half an hour most days, and have been learning songs both by musicians and silly ones that the boy and I write. It’s been great, and I feel like I’ve got it down again. So, congratulations, me.

This is one of the reasons why unemployment is tolerable sometimes. :] I have the greatest guitar teacher/boyfriend in the world, and I plan on getting back to rock star status within the next month, if I keep this up.

I haven’t touched my guitar since I got addicted to playing With A Little Help From My Friends. =[
I wounder if I can still play it..

I was tuning my acoustic and the high E string snapped. I’m going to have to have it restrung.
So I fiddled around with electric unplugged.
Tuned it. Strummed some chords.
It hurt my fingers. Obviously haven’t done it in ages.
Then I printed out the chords to With A Little Help From My Friends and got into playing that for an hour or so.

I need a passion.
I need an emotional outlit.
This is something I really wanted to enjoy, and I did occasionally. But I was just too lazy back then.
I think now I am more patient.
I’ll just play around with it a bit by myself.
Then maybe look into seeing if Chris is around to teach em again.
Or if I need to go back to the place in town for lessons.

i decided to push myself a little harder. i spoke to the director of hood’s early music ensemble, and am arranging an audition to join the ensemble. it means i’ll really have to buckle down and work on my sight-reading, but it will be so worth it in the long run.

In my dream I was buying a new guitar from a store. The strange part was that each guitar came with a blouse. The blouses were a hippy-ish layered look, very similiar to a blouse I saw a woman in the store wearing a couple of days ago. I must of liked it because I put it in my dream! The guitar wasn’t a six-string, though. It was an electric bass guitar. Most of the dream I seem to be waiting while they made the guitar. The blouses were already made. It was kind of a strange time warp since it would be quicker to make a blouse than a bass guitar.The people in line behind me had to wait while they made my guitar. I was upset. I couldn’t figure out why they didn’t just take my order for the guitar and call when when it was ready. Instead, everyone was waiting while they made my guitar. Anyone want to attempt a dream analysis?