OK, so I'm a bit behind on my updates. My second lesson with Josh also turned out to be my last due my own scheduling conflicts. Having said that, however, it was none the less a productive week as I learned a few more new chords and some new chord progressions to practice. Maybe one day I'll understand what the whole I-IV-V thing really means. For now I'm just happy to be able to strum a handful.
The only thing worse than a beginning guitar student is one playing on an out of tune instrument. Although still banging away on a rental, I went ahead and purchased a tuner and metronome. I figured the second worse thing about a beginning rhythm player is someone who has no sense of timing....hence the metronome.
Armed with a couple of new gadgets, I went back home and immediately tuned the strings. All was well until I got to the high E (that's the skinny sting on the bottom which for some odd reason is called the number 1 string in case you were wondering). According to my new digital high tech tuner, the arrow indicated it was playing a bit flat. Unfortunately, I was not aware that a little turning of the tuning peg goes a long way. I'm also not sure what happened next except to say that my dogs were not amused when the tension on that little steel cable caused it to snap. My wife, however, found it somewhat amusing. Bless her heart, she really did try not to laugh out loud.
After cleaning up the mess the dogs made, as well as changing my own shorts, it dawned on me I should've probably taken up the salesman on his offer when he asked if I "needed any strings". I'm betting he knew what was going to happen.
Gregg
No comments:
Post a Comment