On 08 January 2002 13:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Kammy asking: is it possible to play the guitar with only > a book and a discussion list?
Well, and the JMDL guitar site and your CD player! Joni's music is really fun to learn to play because it's relatively easy and sounds a whole lot better than stuff in standard tuning. Probably the trickiest part for a beginner would be getting into an open tuning. Read Howard's thing on Tuning Notation and then try to tune to one of the tunings that has a lot of songs - like the open D tuning (Both Sides Now, Night In The City, You Turn Me On I'm A Radio, etc.) - and print out some of the transcriptions for those songs and just jump in and try to do some of the chord shapes for those songs. You will be surprised, I think, at how much you are able to do right away if you have the tuning right. I always approach learning a song by listening to the recording, too - that's why you need your CD player, so that if you have questions about how something goes, you can listen over and over and fool around with different possibilities until you get what sounds right. Both Sides Now is an especially easy song to start with. Marian Vienna
