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Post by 5kbooster on Feb 5, 2020 3:14:29 GMT
I thought he was too. Especially considering the fact he only started learning how to build.
TBH, personally: I think you’re lucky you never learned. After decades of Engineering and being a Musician, it sucked the life out it for me. I cannot listen to & enjoy music like a “normal person“ does.
I hope I get amnesia someday...
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Feb 5, 2020 9:21:18 GMT
Susan, that's what guitar tuners are for. Now anyone can download a free chromatic tuner app for their phones, which would have been really handy back when I started playing. Then you still had to shell out $50 even for a crappy guitar tuner that wasn't very accurate. I do remember really wanting one of those Prinz guitars. Someone I knew was selling one, but it was a bit too beat up even for the low price he was asking, so I passed it up, which is just as well, really. I hardy ever touch a guitar these days. Honestly, at this point I usually prefer silence over anything else, although I do keep telling myself that what I would really like to do is get a decent, affordable Yamaha digital piano and work on my very rudimentary keyboards skills. This idea appeals because it isn't about anything more than just wanting to do it for the sake of doing it, solely for myself. I have no delusions about being able to play like Cecil Taylor or Thelonious Monk, but it would be fun to have a go at trying to learn some of their (simplest) tunes. When I was in JHS, I took some (acoustic) guitar lessons from my cousin who was a student at Berklee. I got frustrated very quickly because A) my fingers kept hurting from trying to push the strings down hard enough to make the proper notes, and B) I could never figure out how to tune the guitar using a pitch pipe. (My extreme frustration lead me to not practicing, which lead my cousin to getting perturbed with me. All parties concerned rejoiced when I finally gave up.) A decade (or so) later, I decided to try again and bought the aforementioned electric guitar. But truth be told, I likely got it more due to its connection with Prince than for any burning desire to make music on it myself. (I REALLY sucked with the old acoustic. Memories of that suggested I’d suck no matter what I tried to learn on. Having a Prince collectible was fallback.) I bought one of those (crappy?) electronic tuners, but was hopeless with that as well. Whatever musical ambitions I might have had during my life ended when I gave up with the guitar 30 years ago. The high point of my musical efforts will likely remain the disgusting flute-o-phone from the 4th grade: (Disgusting because the thing congealed your breath into spit, which dripped onto the floor and also made the flute-o-phone stink.)
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