| The reclamation of lost childhood... |
 The reclamation of lost childhood...
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May. 16th, 2009 @ 08:32 am 
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Recent innovations in my quest to learn to play the guitar:
1) I bought a music stand, thus making it feasible for me to be able to see the music I'm working off without craning my neck and exacerbating my pain issues. (Mostly, I practice with a deluxe anthology of Queen songs, because... I love Queen, I have a book of sheet music for guitar, piano and vocals for 60 Queen songs almost all of which I love, and guitar, piano and vocals are the musical skills I want to acquire... although I don't yet have a way to practice piano. At some point I'm likely to acquire a keyboard. And in addition to chord notations, this book has chord diagrams, but doesn't use guitar tab. I have just about no interest in guitar tab.)
2) I gave up on finding my missing shark fin pick, and bought not just a replacement for that one, but - having discovered I prefer the shape - five of them, in the full range of gauges. I also found a little bag to hang on my guitar stand and hold my picks, so I don't keep losing them (or, in fact, having to find where I left them before I can start playing). They're Dunlop Fins, and the nifty thing about Dunlop Fins is that they're colour-coded for thickness - the darker the colour (in shades of grey), the heavier the gauge. White is 0.42mm, black is 1.07mm, with a range in between. Nice.
3) I continue to practice daily, and am gradually becoming accustomed to life without fingernails. If my fingernails grow out pretty much at all, they make it hard to get clean string pressures. (In theory I could let the nails on my right hand grow a little longer, but that would make typing feel weird. It's already been odd adjusting to having steel-string callouses on my left hand...) My chording is becoming surer and faster. I remain reasonably confident I can continue to improve. (Also, my hands are developing automatic associations - if my left hand is in a C position, say, my right hand automatically skips the sixth string on the strum.)
I need a guitar icon.
People are still being Wrong On The Internet, and I will probably post about it soon, but right now, I don't have the spoons, so I'm going to watch humourous videos and practice my guitar.
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