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I sure do appreciate all the support. I'm working on some of the major chords now C,D,and E and moving from one to the other...coming along pretty well if I say so myself. I only been working on it for about a week. Who knows, in a few months I might be good enough to play for my wife.
Yep newmex I'm a Kentucky guy, been here all my life. Don't tell anyone, I'm not a big fan of Bluegrass but, at this point I'll try anything.
Of course! There's no such thing as "too old to learn something." That's just a limitation people put on themselves, but if you want to learn it, go ahead!
If you like a sort of jazzy sound, there are a lot of chords that sound really cool and are really easy to play. Let me know if you want me to hook you up.
Of course! There's no such thing as "too old to learn something." That's just a limitation people put on themselves, but if you want to learn it, go ahead!
If you like a sort of jazzy sound, there are a lot of chords that sound really cool and are really easy to play. Let me know if you want me to hook you up.
You can also get by just playing triads, if your hands are a little age-hobbled or if you've ever had an injury that limits your dexterity. There's really no "right" or "legitimate" way to play a guitar, whatever kind of music you prefer to play. Look at old Django Reinhardt---could only fret with two fingers because his hand was mutilated in a fire. And Les Paul was reduced by arthritis to two- or three-finger fretting in the final couple of decades of his life, and he never put his guitar down until he died.*
Even some players who have full hand use and dexterity are three-finger fretters/chorders, and nobody says those people are doing it "wrong." I never could use my left pinkie on a guitar, thanks to a boyhood injury that knocked the joint out of shape, but nobody's complained about my playing when they hear it, and I've been playing the blues for years.
I also had some dexterity lost when I was in a car accident in the early 1990s and had two broken bones in my left hand. But to be honest, it was the best thing that could have happened to me---I used to be a speed player, but that injury forced me to get the bull**** out of my playing and to start thinking all over again in terms of taste and in terms of trying to move people. Carlos Santana said it best: It's great to play fast, but it's more important to play beautifully. Otherwise, you'll have a room full of guys and not a woman in the house. And old B.B. King says things in three notes that nobody else can say in three thousand.
(* I wonder---Les Paul was said to have a couple of hundred guitars in his house. I wonder what's becoming of those instrument, some of which must be hugely valuable . . . )
You can also get by just playing triads, if your hands are a little age-hobbled or if you've ever had an injury that limits your dexterity. There's really no "right" or "legitimate" way to play a guitar, whatever kind of music you prefer to play. Look at old Django Reinhardt---could only fret with two fingers because his hand was mutilated in a fire. And Les Paul was reduced by arthritis to two- or three-finger fretting in the final couple of decades of his life, and he never put his guitar down until he died.*
Even some players who have full hand use and dexterity are three-finger fretters/chorders, and nobody says those people are doing it "wrong." I never could use my left pinkie on a guitar, thanks to a boyhood injury that knocked the joint out of shape, but nobody's complained about my playing when they hear it, and I've been playing the blues for years.
I also had some dexterity lost when I was in a car accident in the early 1990s and had two broken bones in my left hand. But to be honest, it was the best thing that could have happened to me---I used to be a speed player, but that injury forced me to get the bull**** out of my playing and to start thinking all over again in terms of taste and in terms of trying to move people. Carlos Santana said it best: It's great to play fast, but it's more important to play beautifully. Otherwise, you'll have a room full of guys and not a woman in the house. And old B.B. King says things in three notes that nobody else can say in three thousand.
(* I wonder---Les Paul was said to have a couple of hundred guitars in his house. I wonder what's becoming of those instrument, some of which must be hugely valuable . . . )
Yeah, I hate that too. I'm a self taught player and always hated a teacher telling me when I was a kid that.........."you use this fingering or that"! It sounds the same right? Well then, who cares? I only took 5 lessons and beat it! Back then it was like $10! LOL Hahaha What really irritates you is when they poke fun at Jimi and Stevie for not being able to read music. Are you guys serious? Who freakin cares, they played BY EAR and would have smoked your arse on your best day in their sleep!
Yeah, I hate that too. I'm a self taught player and always hated a teacher telling me when I was a kid that.........."you use this fingering or that"! It sounds the same right? Well then, who cares? I only took 5 lessons and beat it! Back then it was like $10! LOL Hahaha What really irritates you is when they poke fun at Jimi and Stevie for not being able to read music. Are you guys serious? Who freakin cares, they played BY EAR and would have smoked your arse on your best day in their sleep!
I'll give you another self-taught guitar titan. He didn't pick up a guitar until he was eighteen years old, married with children already, working as a welder, and knocked completely inside out in admiration when he heard Charlie Christian's "Solo Flight" . . .
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It sounds the same right? Well then, who cares? I only took 5 lessons and beat it! Back then it was like $10! LOL Hahaha
What really irritates you is when they poke fun at Jimi and Stevie for not being able to read music. Are you guys serious?
Who freakin cares, they played BY EAR and would have smoked your arse on your best day in their sleep!
