My bad. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, so here is an update on what’s been happening over the last couple of months.
The fist main event was my Finlayson D1-G guitar getting SMASHED. No I didn’t do it out of frustration or anything, it wasn’t me at all. It was purely an accident. I put it down for a few seconds to review a YouTube lesson, one of my kids passed by, gave the strings a strum which knocked the guitar off balance and it fell off the chair I had sat it on onto our wooden floor, neck first, which shattered. The guitar died that day, but not my child. I wasn’t at all angry, just a bit sad, but my little girl was very upset. I reassured her everything was OK. I felt really sorry for her, the poor wee soul.
This was the main reason I’ve not wrote anything for a while. I didn’t have a guitar.
But the good news is, I have a new one (and a proper stand to put it on now, lol). I bought a really nice Yamaha AC1-R. It is an electric acoustic with cutaway style body. The action is great – something I struggled with, with the Finlayson, the quality is superb and more importantly I find it more comfortable than the Finlayson I had. Overall it’s a far superior guitar.
So all this happened over a month ago. Since then, I’ve even had a shot of my friends Ibanez G10 electric guitar, amp and effects pedals, and learnt some power chords. I had it for a week and it was a lot of fun and a great experience.
I’ve also been learning my scales, some licks and walk-ups and walk-downs, but still I have not been practicing enough over the last month or so. I have discovered a few nice blues slids, the E7 A7 and B7 chords. My friend, Tim, has been putting a lot of time and effort into his playing and he is coming on really great. I think so anyway. I’m impressed with his skill but I’m badly falling behind. I need to have the guitar in my hands more and practice my chord changes as I’m still too slow, which is evident and jamming sessions when trying to play along with the actual song. I can’t keep up.
My tasks are to practice my chord changes, be less afraid to practice in a group, nail the chords first time and learn to feel the rhythm to strum to.
Much to learn young padawan. Much to learn…
The fist main event was my Finlayson D1-G guitar getting SMASHED. No I didn’t do it out of frustration or anything, it wasn’t me at all. It was purely an accident. I put it down for a few seconds to review a YouTube lesson, one of my kids passed by, gave the strings a strum which knocked the guitar off balance and it fell off the chair I had sat it on onto our wooden floor, neck first, which shattered. The guitar died that day, but not my child. I wasn’t at all angry, just a bit sad, but my little girl was very upset. I reassured her everything was OK. I felt really sorry for her, the poor wee soul.
This was the main reason I’ve not wrote anything for a while. I didn’t have a guitar.
But the good news is, I have a new one (and a proper stand to put it on now, lol). I bought a really nice Yamaha AC1-R. It is an electric acoustic with cutaway style body. The action is great – something I struggled with, with the Finlayson, the quality is superb and more importantly I find it more comfortable than the Finlayson I had. Overall it’s a far superior guitar.
So all this happened over a month ago. Since then, I’ve even had a shot of my friends Ibanez G10 electric guitar, amp and effects pedals, and learnt some power chords. I had it for a week and it was a lot of fun and a great experience.
I’ve also been learning my scales, some licks and walk-ups and walk-downs, but still I have not been practicing enough over the last month or so. I have discovered a few nice blues slids, the E7 A7 and B7 chords. My friend, Tim, has been putting a lot of time and effort into his playing and he is coming on really great. I think so anyway. I’m impressed with his skill but I’m badly falling behind. I need to have the guitar in my hands more and practice my chord changes as I’m still too slow, which is evident and jamming sessions when trying to play along with the actual song. I can’t keep up.
My tasks are to practice my chord changes, be less afraid to practice in a group, nail the chords first time and learn to feel the rhythm to strum to.
Much to learn young padawan. Much to learn…
