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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
:-)
The joys of doing this on a phone stuck in bed with lurgy!
Manchester based original indie band Random White:
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There is a lack of confidence in my case certainly, but also a lack of any basic talent....
I have always vaguely believed that if I put in the hard work (and somehow found the time) to learn to play a bunch of popular/classic songs "properly" then I might have a sudden breakthrough and realise that playing guitar's easier than I thought it was (I long ago stopped harbouring any ambitions of becoming an amazing sweep-pickin' lighting-fast shredder or anything like that ....).
But there's also the fear that, even if I did acquire the ability to fumble through a few ham-fisted cover songs, I'd still be unable to pick things up well by ear and I'd still be unable to actually create anything musical.
I do sometimes contemplate jacking it all in but the thought of selling all those guitars is depressing and very..... final. What would I have to obsess about afterwards?
You, on the other hand, sound like a Guitar Player. To me, anyway.
Me two! Except that I did learn to fumble my way through some songs and play them with a band not once, but twice. The first time was just a cobbled-together affair for a work do, and we were indulged not once, not twice but three times (over the course of about three years, mind). I was central to all three and all I really remember of any of it was the sheer terror involved. Then last year I joined a proper band to do some proper gigs in front of complete strangers. This time I was just the rhythm guy, with only a filling in the background role, and suddenly the terror had completely vanished - stage fright was bafflingly non-existent. (I was a bit nervous, but not gut-wrenchingly terror-struck, like the first time.) I did that three times before I was dropped because the main guitarist was desperate to have the stage to himself, so he threatened to leave if they didn't fire me.
That was the closest that I've ever come to jacking it all in, but I recovered, a bit, and now I'm working my way through the Justin Sandercoe lessons on tinternet that some kind soul on here pointed me towards and its made a big difference. I'm not completely back in the groove yet, but I think there's a chance I might be getting there.
He's worth a try, he really is. He even teaches you how to pick stuff up by ear.
My music:- https://soundcloud.com/hubobulous
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
@hubobulous Thanks very much for the suggestions, much appreciated!
I shall try to check them out, especially the Justin Sandercoe lessons. I've often thought lessons would be the way to go, but I just can't face the thought of spending weekends or wet winter evenings trudging around remote and insalubrious corners of London schlepping a gig bag.
And I like new toys so I also tick the D box.
Definitely not an A, and not much of a B either tbh.