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Copyright 2005 Christina M. Guerrero
12/20/05
Concert update:
Paid for three: Backstreet Boys, Etta James, Green Day
For way too long I was quite lonely. I worked during the day, and wrote
my novel in the afternoons and evenings, spent time with friends and family, went out
once in a while.
But I still felt lonely. The lack of a musical instrument in my life was making me
miserable. I couldn’t eat ... couldn’t sleep. I felt very sad that my keyboard was in storage
a long way from my apartment, along with all my sheet music. I wondered if I would ever
see my little (actually quite big) Yamaha again.
Then one day I couldn’t take it anymore. I saved up a tiny bit of money and went to a
guitar store, where a salesman helped me find an instrument that would be be a good fit
and comfortable for me to use. I went home with a tan Alvarez guitar in its own case.
Once I got that sweetpea home I was no longer lonely.
Since last summer, I’ve struggled while relearning the guitar, which I first learned from 1981 to
1982, and played fairly well from 1982 to 1986, when I abruptly decided to leave the first guitar with a neighbor before a long-distance move, and then never sent for it. Back then, I learned a little bit of
classical music and could play well by finger-picking, but have since forgotten all that
stuff.
So far I’ve mastered the G, C, D, D7, C7, F, A, Em, and B7 chords. I
can also play a simple bass rythmn and an alternating bass rythmn.
Before getting well into my Acoustic Guitar Primer, I got too excited and checked out
sheet music from the library: Backstreet Boys, Eric Clapton and the Beatles. The BSB
stuff was easy, as were the Beatles's melodically simple yet lyrically meaningful songs.
Clapton was a challenge.
I’ll check him out again when I’ve mastered the rest of my primer.
I’m not so sure this is the right guitar for me. Some of those fancier chords require a lot
of stretching of the fingers. My little hand can only go so far.
Practiced only one day this week, due to holiday shopping taking up the rest of the
week.