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Old 01-30-2020, 08:38 PM
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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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... My first band was when I was stationed with the Navy in Puerto Rico... Fort Allen Naval Communications Station, Ponce Puerto Rico 1969...
We were in PR at the same time but on opposite coasts. I was the guitar player in an impromptu group on the LPH-9 GUAM. It went into San Juan several times on Caribbean deployments from 1968-71. Your station probably communicated with our ship a lot. Here we are on my open reel recorder in someone's stateroom at sea in 1970:
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Welcome to the forum Navy. I think you will enjoy your time spent here.
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Old 01-31-2020, 11:45 AM
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I know of that guy ... he's a specialist ... Martin Luthier King.
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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Oh yeah, two more things young fella. Definitely find a guitar tech to set up the guitar so it plays easily. A guitar with high action will ruin the whole experience.

And if you watch TV - keep guitar in hand and practice.
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Old 02-11-2020, 08:10 AM
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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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Old 02-11-2020, 08:45 AM
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Welcome Navy, glad to have you!

A lot of beginners seem to like a site called Justin guitar. I'm not too familiar with it, but my impression is that he gives away a lot of content, and he has some structured lesson plans for learning different techniques. That may be better than looking around YouTube in a hit or miss fashion.

Not be able to read music will not prevent you from playing songs, so no worries there. But finding a good, local live teacher is highly recommended. Nothing wrong with online learning, but if you don't know what questions to ask you may not find the right answers as quickly or easily

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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.

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Old 02-11-2020, 09:39 AM
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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.
As you have observed there are many enthusiastic and talented individuals on AGF happy to give advice and educated comments. This is a great resource.

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

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Old 02-11-2020, 10:42 AM
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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.
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