Learning stuff
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 12:16 pm
Hello all.
Being someone who just started playing guitar at age 67 ( now 72) I still consider myself a "beginner", and I'm constantly amazed by the knowledge some posters here have about "CHET".
They know "everything" about him, right down to the brand of pickups, strings, tuners, and amps he used in every song or album he played.
It makes me realize how little "I" have learned over the past 5 years, and makes me laugh at myself when I think about the small bits of knowledge I've gathered.
Some things most of you have known for years.
Things like:
There aren't enough years left in my life to reach the skill level I'd like to play guitar at.
I suppose every guitar player feels that way.
It's impossible to count how many different brands, styles,types,and colors, of guitars, amplifiers, picks, and strings, there are, if a guy has the money to buy them.
No matter how much you stea ..... I mean "borrow" from another picker, you still wind up liking it better when you play it your own way.
Thanks to Adam Rafferty, I learned that when my playing is sounding it's worst, I need to concentrate on the "RHYTHM"
It helps every time.
I've learned not to "scoff" any more, when I hear about someone breaking a "nail".
It becomes "life changing".
I never thought I'd find myself in Walmart looking at fake fingernails.
I've tried glue on, stick on, gel nails, acrylic nails, and even had to resort to the "pink" ones, when that's all they had on the rack.
I also know, that as soon as I get the nails stuck on, filed down just right, and start playing, my doorbell rings, and it's a neighbor wanting me to help him do something.
So, I have to take the nails back off.
I like living here, and going out of my house wearing pink fingernails, where the big macho neighbors can see me, would also be "life changing".
I know now, that my wife has learned how to release the safety on my Ruger 9 mm.
I'm sure I heard that definite sound out in the hall while I was practicing.
I'd been trying to learn "Windy and Warm".
I know that "repetition" is important, and I had been playing "Windy and Warm" over and over, and over, for about 8 weeks.
I wanted to get it "right".
I had just started trying to sing the "naw naw naw naw, naw naw naw naw" part like Chet did,
I've learned how valuable the YouTube videos can be, when you're trying to learn a song.
With all the videos of Chet, Paul, and Jerry, out there, plus all the other great pickers, I can hear how the song is supposed to be played.
Those guys are "still" teaching us.
Now long ago, Paul taught me how to play "Sweet Alalee"
It doesn't get better than that.
The learning goes on ......
bill
Being someone who just started playing guitar at age 67 ( now 72) I still consider myself a "beginner", and I'm constantly amazed by the knowledge some posters here have about "CHET".
They know "everything" about him, right down to the brand of pickups, strings, tuners, and amps he used in every song or album he played.
It makes me realize how little "I" have learned over the past 5 years, and makes me laugh at myself when I think about the small bits of knowledge I've gathered.
Some things most of you have known for years.
Things like:
There aren't enough years left in my life to reach the skill level I'd like to play guitar at.
I suppose every guitar player feels that way.
It's impossible to count how many different brands, styles,types,and colors, of guitars, amplifiers, picks, and strings, there are, if a guy has the money to buy them.
No matter how much you stea ..... I mean "borrow" from another picker, you still wind up liking it better when you play it your own way.
Thanks to Adam Rafferty, I learned that when my playing is sounding it's worst, I need to concentrate on the "RHYTHM"
It helps every time.
I've learned not to "scoff" any more, when I hear about someone breaking a "nail".
It becomes "life changing".
I never thought I'd find myself in Walmart looking at fake fingernails.
I've tried glue on, stick on, gel nails, acrylic nails, and even had to resort to the "pink" ones, when that's all they had on the rack.
I also know, that as soon as I get the nails stuck on, filed down just right, and start playing, my doorbell rings, and it's a neighbor wanting me to help him do something.
So, I have to take the nails back off.
I like living here, and going out of my house wearing pink fingernails, where the big macho neighbors can see me, would also be "life changing".
I know now, that my wife has learned how to release the safety on my Ruger 9 mm.
I'm sure I heard that definite sound out in the hall while I was practicing.
I'd been trying to learn "Windy and Warm".
I know that "repetition" is important, and I had been playing "Windy and Warm" over and over, and over, for about 8 weeks.
I wanted to get it "right".
I had just started trying to sing the "naw naw naw naw, naw naw naw naw" part like Chet did,
I've learned how valuable the YouTube videos can be, when you're trying to learn a song.
With all the videos of Chet, Paul, and Jerry, out there, plus all the other great pickers, I can hear how the song is supposed to be played.
Those guys are "still" teaching us.
Now long ago, Paul taught me how to play "Sweet Alalee"
It doesn't get better than that.
The learning goes on ......
bill