The
exact date has long
since gone from
my memory, (it was long before the internet and downloadable guitar
videos) but I CAN still remember how good it felt AND more importantly
how unlikely the situation was.
Imagine
me . . . I was 22 years old and had been playing for less than 18 months.
(This was long before the creation of online guitar lessons) My
fulltime job, the one that fed the twin boys we had,
and kept the roof above our heads, was as a door to door insurance
agent. OK so it wasn't glamourous but it paid the mortgage on the tiny
house we had.
Most days I wore a cheap suit and
travelled round on a 50cc motor cycle. Visiting clients in their own
homes and collecting their weekly premiums and trying (not very well in
those days) to sell them more life/car/house insurance.
The
only
good part about that job was meeting people in the evenings and getting
to spend most of the daytime with my kids and indulging my new found passion . . . the guitar.
Can
YOU remember what first got
you interested in Guitar?
I can't
remember what first drew me to the guitar. I can remember the smell of
the wood and the sound of the strings and the feel of the thing but not
the reason I was drawn to it so completely.
I remember
the first time I tried to hold down a chord. The pain was unbelievable.
I remember thinking surely it can't
feel like this when you play...otherwise why would anyone do it?
(Of course there were no
Online Acoustic Guitar Lessons
in those days and I couldn't afford
guitar
lessons with a teacher)
Then I
started to think . . . . . this is impossible!
When
I read those first books
on guitar, not one of them mentioned that
it actually hurt your fingers. They all made it sound so
easy.
'Hold down
a G chord and strum four times . . then change to a C chord and Woah...
wait
a minute ....THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE.
I admit
that I am a very compulsive and driven person, but I couldn't see how I
was going to get past holding down those first couple of chords. I'd
bought a few books by now and had a go at some tabs, but I was getting
nowhere. Couldn't play a damn song
to save my life . . . but I could hold down a G chord . . . well
yippidee dah!
"The Story
Could Have Ended Right There . . ."
The story
could very easily have ended right there had it not been for a little
coincidence. The house next door to ours was vacant and the owner asked
if I could show potential tenants round if they showed up.
I said yes
and one day a guy turned up to look at the house and he had a guitar
case with him. I asked him if he could play and he said yes...and took out the guitar and started turning
me green with envy.
The story
races on here...he moved in and we became great friends despite the
fact that I was round there every night (almost every night) for the
next 12 months. Paul was very patient with me, I think because he could
see how enthusiastic I was, and taught me just about everything he knew.
A year
later we both realised that I had more of a talent for guitar than he
did but with his patience and his willingness to show me (sometimes
over and over again for hours) I had
learned at a pace that was breathtaking.
They were
going to regret this!
So here we
were about 18 months
after I had first picked up a guitar, a room full of
smirking wannabe 'musicians' all
looking cool with long hair, torn jeans, smiling at this dude in the
cheap suit who had asked to look at one of the guitars.
I
had turned up at one of my usual calls and the house was full of guys
who were home from college...and they had a band (well kind of a band)
and were rehearsing!
'Do
you play?' one of them asked. 'A bit' I replied, as another one of them
passed this beaten up old acoustic guitar to me with a 'come on
then smart-ass show us what you can do'
look on his face.
Four guys staring with wide eyes and even wider mouths
There
are some times in your life when
you just feel soooo good...
and
this was one of those times. I'm not a 'show off' by nature but just
for that few minutes I was revelling in the glory. I casually rattled
off half a dozen classic guitar pieces of the day, I still can't
remember what I played that day, but I CAN REMEMBER THEIR FACES.
When
I'd finished there was no applause. I just passed the guitar back and
said 'I better get going guys..' All eyes were on me as I left the
room. There was nothing else to say, I'd just let my playing do
the talking.
How had I
managed to get so good in such a short time?
Well
there
are many ways to learn guitar but they are not all
equal. Books and tabs work ok if
you have the talent, time and determination. If you are human like me
then there is a much better and faster way.
The
acoustic guitar
IS a folk instrument
And
what do you think is the best way to learn how to play a folk
instrument? Well for the last few thousand years we've learned by......
Watching folks play it.
Yes! It IS mind bogglingly simple
isn't it?
To
this day mankind has found no better way to learn a simple
instrument like the acoustic guitar, than by getting someone to show us
how to
do it. That simple fact, that I had learned all those years ago, was
the single reason that I started this entire venture.
'Most of the worlds
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