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My mom had a guitar all the time I was growing up and played country and
western stuff.
By the time I was old enough to get interested, 13 or 14 or so, we had three
guitars. The one I was using was a now-sought-after, then crappy-scary, big
blues guitar. It had a curved front like a violin, with f-holes. The
strings were NOT near the neck. The neck wasn't flat.
I used to tune it (from having heard my mom tune for years, I knew what the
progression of notes sounded like) and just play it flat on the bed like
people played electric steel guitars (which we also had at the time). So I
got where the half-steps were and found the scales, just messing.
It was too big for me to hold right.
When I was fourteen turning fifteen, that summer, I really wanted to learn.
My friend Ymelda Martinez was playing, and she said she would teach me. I
went to her house and she showed me how to use chord charts and I played
"Banks of the Ohio," a fine American murder ballad with three chords (four
when you get fancy and use a 7th). I told her I'd come back for another
lesson when I had learned that stuff.
I never had another lesson. We still joke about it sometimes, how she taught
me guitar. She says "I DID NOT!" I say yes, she did, because I needed those
pointers and advice about how to hold my hand and information about how to
read the notation. Then I just went.
But one of the first things I did was to get a better, more modern guitar. I
sold my clarinet and bought an $82 Ventura (Japanese) with a flat neck, more
narrow than a classical guitar, smaller body than that monster blues guitar,
and I was totally zooming then. I still have that guitar. And a C.F.
Martin. <g>
There are probably lots of sites online with chords, and songs with chord
changes marked.
Sandra
western stuff.
By the time I was old enough to get interested, 13 or 14 or so, we had three
guitars. The one I was using was a now-sought-after, then crappy-scary, big
blues guitar. It had a curved front like a violin, with f-holes. The
strings were NOT near the neck. The neck wasn't flat.
I used to tune it (from having heard my mom tune for years, I knew what the
progression of notes sounded like) and just play it flat on the bed like
people played electric steel guitars (which we also had at the time). So I
got where the half-steps were and found the scales, just messing.
It was too big for me to hold right.
When I was fourteen turning fifteen, that summer, I really wanted to learn.
My friend Ymelda Martinez was playing, and she said she would teach me. I
went to her house and she showed me how to use chord charts and I played
"Banks of the Ohio," a fine American murder ballad with three chords (four
when you get fancy and use a 7th). I told her I'd come back for another
lesson when I had learned that stuff.
I never had another lesson. We still joke about it sometimes, how she taught
me guitar. She says "I DID NOT!" I say yes, she did, because I needed those
pointers and advice about how to hold my hand and information about how to
read the notation. Then I just went.
But one of the first things I did was to get a better, more modern guitar. I
sold my clarinet and bought an $82 Ventura (Japanese) with a flat neck, more
narrow than a classical guitar, smaller body than that monster blues guitar,
and I was totally zooming then. I still have that guitar. And a C.F.
Martin. <g>
There are probably lots of sites online with chords, and songs with chord
changes marked.
Sandra
Elizabeth Roberts
LOL OK OK!! I GIVE!!! :-)
I'm already thinking...so it'll take me about a month
to put aside the money to go buy one for me and
Sarah..no big deal...less time if I'm extra sweet to
my husband LOL!!
Thing is...I just bought a new trumpet that is just
SITTING in the darn closet because I broke one of my
front teeth (I mean it is cracked all the way through
and about to fall out!!) and can't play it!!! He
understands, but he'll want to be certain that if I
buy one I'll do something with it and not just do it
for a couple weeks and it sit around the house for the
next twenty years.
BUT Sarah has CONSISTANTLY asked to play the guitar
for over two years now..so I don't think it's a
fleeting interest for her; and I know I can teach
myself. I have a friend who is also self-taught who
has said she'll teach me what she knows if I'm
interested although she can't read notation well.
Elizabeth
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I'm already thinking...so it'll take me about a month
to put aside the money to go buy one for me and
Sarah..no big deal...less time if I'm extra sweet to
my husband LOL!!
Thing is...I just bought a new trumpet that is just
SITTING in the darn closet because I broke one of my
front teeth (I mean it is cracked all the way through
and about to fall out!!) and can't play it!!! He
understands, but he'll want to be certain that if I
buy one I'll do something with it and not just do it
for a couple weeks and it sit around the house for the
next twenty years.
BUT Sarah has CONSISTANTLY asked to play the guitar
for over two years now..so I don't think it's a
fleeting interest for her; and I know I can teach
myself. I have a friend who is also self-taught who
has said she'll teach me what she knows if I'm
interested although she can't read notation well.
Elizabeth
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At 08:58 AM 3/22/2003 -0800, you wrote:
instruments (ask at music/instrument stores) and an amazing number of
people have musical instruments laying around that they just don't use.
Bit more work, lots less cash, and momma's a happy girl.
...if you're both still loving it in a few months, then save up to get one
of her very own.
HeidiWD
>LOL OK OK!! I GIVE!!! :-)So don't buy one, BORROW, or even rent! Lots of places will rent musical
>
>I'm already thinking...so it'll take me about a month
>to put aside the money to go buy one for me and
>Sarah..no big deal...less time if I'm extra sweet to
>my husband LOL!!
instruments (ask at music/instrument stores) and an amazing number of
people have musical instruments laying around that they just don't use.
Bit more work, lots less cash, and momma's a happy girl.
...if you're both still loving it in a few months, then save up to get one
of her very own.
HeidiWD
Elizabeth Roberts
Nah...I'll go ahead and buy, with soon-to-be four
kids, even if Sarah decides she's not that interested
in the guitar, one of the others very well could be
(Logan has been pretending EVERYTHING is a guitar for
months now) eventually as well.
Now "renting to own" for three months? that's a
possibility although it would be combined with the
trumpet payments I already have going; so I think it'd
be better to just put it aside on my own and then get
one.
E
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kids, even if Sarah decides she's not that interested
in the guitar, one of the others very well could be
(Logan has been pretending EVERYTHING is a guitar for
months now) eventually as well.
Now "renting to own" for three months? that's a
possibility although it would be combined with the
trumpet payments I already have going; so I think it'd
be better to just put it aside on my own and then get
one.
E
--- Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema <heidi@...> wrote:
> At 08:58 AM 3/22/2003 -0800, you wrote:__________________________________________________
> >LOL OK OK!! I GIVE!!! :-)
> >
> >I'm already thinking...so it'll take me about a
> month
> >to put aside the money to go buy one for me and
> >Sarah..no big deal...less time if I'm extra sweet
> to
> >my husband LOL!!
>
> So don't buy one, BORROW, or even rent! Lots of
> places will rent musical
> instruments (ask at music/instrument stores) and an
> amazing number of
> people have musical instruments laying around that
> they just don't use.
> Bit more work, lots less cash, and momma's a happy
> girl.
> ...if you're both still loving it in a few months,
> then save up to get one
> of her very own.
> HeidiWD
>
>
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In a message dated 3/22/2003 5:20:03 PM Central Standard Time,
ladyeliza_r@... writes:
weeny violin (1/16th I think) for my four year old. BUT, we also ended up
paying for the rental for quite some time due to disorganization.. That's
how they make their money, I guess.
Elizabeth
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ladyeliza_r@... writes:
> Now "renting to own" for three months? that's aWe did that with a violin and then ended up buying one on eBay. A teeny
> possibility although it would be combined with the
> trumpet payments I already have going; so I think it'd
> be better to just put it aside on my own and then get
> one
weeny violin (1/16th I think) for my four year old. BUT, we also ended up
paying for the rental for quite some time due to disorganization.. That's
how they make their money, I guess.
Elizabeth
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