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Thank you all for the warm welcomes and well wishes. Things have indeed started slow, and February will be a wash as I keep some grands while my daughter is out of town. We'll get there.
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https://soundcloud.com/user-87179829...hoping/s-jpdD8
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Welcome to the forum Navy. I think you will enjoy your time spent here.
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I just mean to say that I had not known what a luthier was until recently. I thought luthiers were like flautists in that they played instruments.
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Welcome to AGF, Navy! Count me among the many here who have picked up the guitar late in life!
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LOL!!!!!!
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learn & master
Check out Gibson's Learn and Master lessons.
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Hey guy, thanks for the service. My little one is a Navy doc and seems to like the service.
Good luck on your journey, and don't let the F and Bflat chords get you down. (You'll see, LOL) If either of them is hard, let a guitar tech check the action on your axe and be sure it's as playable as possible. |
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This is actually a great suggestion. Justin has a structured path to follow that has you learning songs as you learn chords. My biggest mistake (I started in my 40's) was just being all over the place on youtube. Learn a little of this and a little of that with no direction. Something like Justin has a path to follow. I also joined a site called Guitar Tricks this year. It's a paid subscription but same thing, it has structure. Welcome and thank you for your service. |
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learning is the journey
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If I could do it over I would have learned the guitar neck early on. Learn where those notes are. Of course one of the beauties of the guitar is that the patterns are there and the next thing you know you are making music! I also support learning to read. I can read at a grade school level and I'm 72 and got my first guitar when I was in high school. But, slowly, I have discovered some beautiful, not complex, melodies. And TAB can certainly lead the way to playing well. I have to say that learning the neck and learning to read have come slowly to me but I need to challenge my brain to, hopefully, keep it working. I'm retired now and music fills up a fair amount of the day. So for the brain it's "use it or lose it'. This is a link to a short TED animation on music and the brain. It's encouraging. How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8hng&t=1s why2 |
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Navy, I'm on my 3rd go around at playing guitar at age 63. Been back at it about a year and a half now. Difference is, I have played music all my life (Trombone, bass guitar, clawhammer banjo, dobro, uke now guitar)
I think the best advice I can give you is, NO negative self talk (I can't do this, I'm not as good as my neighbor's 10 year old kid etc...) and find time during your day to play it even when you're busy. 15 minutes of strumming chords you know every day will at least keep you from going backwards in your progress. GO SLOW. gauge your progress in months or seasons NOT days or weeks. At this stage in our lives none of us are going to be Chet Atkins. |