Right on. I'm gonna go to New Orleans Music Exchange, a really old place here and browse around. Thanks for your inspiration. I'm really gonna do it. Never too early to start practicing to be a Beatle in my next life. Thanks again. Your response was full of info and I will need to study it. Love U - peace.
----- Original Message ----- From: "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com> To: <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 11:04 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: To Curtis re Guitar > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk" <kirk_bernha...@...> wrote: > > Kirk, > > You have asked the right man. First because I am a big fan of yours > here, and second because I am the biggest evangelist of late-life > instrument learning that I know. I spent the last few years teaching > a 70 year old to play blues guitar. He performed for his family many > times before his untimely death this year. It is NEVER too late to > enjoy guitar. > >> >> So say you decided to learn guitar at 50. > > Great you are young like me. You will have NO trouble at all. > > Do you suppose a good sounding > guitar wuld proote practice and how > as a non music reader would you go > about it. > > Unless the only music that moves your soul is classical forget about > reading music. Guitar tab was created for the rest of us and it is > much easier. Plus now you can learn most songs you want with video > instructions from youtube. Type in your favorite song's name and > guitar lesson to see what I mean. I use it almost every day. > > consider because as a fan you would just wanto to do it but to do >> it well. > > Guitar is the instrument of the people, it always has been. The great > thing about guitar is that is delivers such pleasure in a few months > that for most instruments take years. But it also is bigger than any > of us so you can grow with it for your whole life. There is no end to > what you can learn on guitar. Vaj will back me on this. It is a > monster instrument which can deliver great pleasure in a few months of > practice and keep you challenged for the rest of your life. > > Or something. Sory if this is too basic. What's a really good >> lesser expensive guitar, probably acoustic or steel string. > > I wish you were in DC. I would take you down to the Guitar Center and > find the best action solid top they had for around $300. But that's OK > cuz your local guitar center has a resident guitar geek who can help > you to find the solid top guitar with the best action for a beginner. > Use light strings at first and tune down a half step like Jimi and > Stevie Ray to help your fingers get strong. If $300 is too much get > one for what you can afford with a good feeling to it. Let your > guitar store geek help you find one with good action. The key is to > get one in your hands. As long as it has good action the quality is > secondary. Don't wait till you have the money for a top intrument or > you may lose your chance to start. > > Kirk, you gotta do this! Guitar is one of the greatest pleasures in > life and it is never too late to start. In a few years you will be > playing amazing stuff if you love it and put your fingers on the > strings each day for a few minutes. > > I would love to come visit you and get you started, but feel free to > call me from the number at my Website about your guitar > www.curtisblues.com or email me privately. Get the free SKYPE program > and a video cam and I'll give you you lessons to get your started. > > I am always happy to help another person to enter the bliss of a > relationship with the guitar. It is one of the biggest secrets of > happiness in life that I have discovered. You can do it and you will > LOVE it Kirk. You have so much personal joy from playing to look > forward to. > > It takes some dues to cultivate your fingers to be able to comfortably > form the few chords you need to play 90% of popular music. > > Everyone thinks their hands are too small for guitar at first. > Most guitarists are self-taught. > There are as many ways to approach the instrument as there are people > on earth. It is that wide a musical road you are starting on. You > will find your own way. > > Everyone's fingers hurt at first and you think you are the only person > who can't learn guitar. But you CAN. And you will LOVE it. > > I hope that helps you catch a fire brother! Guitar is a universe. It > gives me so much every day of my life. > > > > > > > >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
