A Year of Guitar
Basically I have been learning the guitar for a year – this is me at home with books – I did have some guitar lessons during my GCSE’s which was half a lift time ago now. It was about a years worth and as my coordination and musical knowledge were pretty bad at the time the poor teacher spent most of the lessons trying to teach me rhythm and how to hold the guitar without dropping it.
Hence I am quiet proud of what I have achieved in a year around small children and giving birth and what not. I have been working on various things – my husband got me two children’s guitar books which I have steadily been working my way through. One is Christmas Carols and one is nursery rhymes – this turned out to be an important move as part of the problem I’d had when trying to play the guitar before was that I was trying to play stuff that was technically advance and way out of a beginners league.
The other thing has been I have made the music part of the family life – I practice the guitar reguardless of if others are in the room, the guitar was moved from the bedroom where I would sneak off to try and play once every few months (generally just after a musical friend who could tune it had visited) to it being down stairs and easily got to. I allocated a space on our units for my guitar books and plectrums and also a tuner! This has made things so much different for me to the point that I am happy to show my little girl basic guitar. I had previously been trying to tune it from a piano over the road belonging to our landlady and aunt in law but it never sounded right (turns out the piano is out).
For my 30th birthday celebration I have been given the complete beatles cord book and a silver engraved plectrum as well as a multitude of other musical themed things – I had decreed that my 30’s would be musical – I have done five – six years with no choir, no musical theatre etc… and I really can not live like that.
Anyway I decided to video me playing various things and put them up but my husband pointed out that my song There’s a Boy Over There would work as it shows most of what I can do (badly and the singings iffy too!). So here it is and please bare in mind a small person is hugging my foot throughout – you can probably detect the point at the beginning when they moved in with grabby little hands! The video has also got a weird jarring artifact in the middle – no idea what caused that. The clipping is because it is being recorded straight onto the laptop with no external mic and the similar effect in the visuals is because it is a laptop camera!
Posted: Thursday, September 8th, 2011 @ 10:28 am
Categories: Songs.
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