PL Board Mixtape

I don't teach guitar, but if I did the below song would be one of the first I would get someone to learn, as the slowed down tuition below demonstrates, it is easy to replicate over the whole fret board, because it simply uses the opening notes of A B C - well E ABC E actually...

 

Tried so many times to learn but I just can't get it. I suppose some people just don't work that way.

 

Time, patience (which I have little) and lots of practise or as my tutor once said, always make sure you have a guitar in your home.

I learn in chunks, so breaking songs down into stages. A lot of what a guitarist does is just finger memory, so I do repetition of those chunks, once my fingers remember where to be on the first stage, then and only then, do I move to the second chunk and so on.

I don't even learn those chunks in sequence, I imagine it like a patchwork quilt, learn the bits I like and leave the harder parts until last, and eventually stitch it all together.

If I try something, if I don't like, be straight with yourself and acknowledge to avoid those types of music, my pet hate is strumming, it's boring, fair enough, learn blues, rifs, finger plucking, note picking, whatever as long has you enjoy what you choose.

It's about finding your style, how the guitar best works for you, take Youtube as an example, pick a song to learn, now look at every video where tutors teach you that song, they are all different right, everyone one of them, really? Yup! Now find the one that reflects you.

Don't over complicate it, if you only pick E A B C E to start with, it's a start....

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My hands are like claws when I play so stiff and unresponsive. I decided it wasn't for me because of this.

There are 4 main buttons on an Xbox controller YXBA they are coloured and in games the coloured controller letter will at times flash up on the screen for you to press quickly as part of a game.

I've been playing games for about 15 years and still have to look down at the controller to remember which button to press.

I figured that based on that kind of stupidity the guitar isn't for me.

 

Like that, will have to explore

 

One of the original members of The Birthday Party.

 

Never really got into them tbh

 

So dark and aggressive loved them, my Nick Cave obsession goes all the way back to them.

 

Tbf, I only played a few tracks and thought it's not for me, always think about giving it another try but don't get around to it. Perhaps I should.

 

A pre dinner malt,with..

 

This was in a film I was watching last night, pretty good. Find loads of new music from films.

 

Played REM - Monster, this morning,not aged well