Topic: Electric guitars and Guitar Hero!
After planning to buy my friend's extremely belated birthday present (I would buy anything she wanted within reason). My friend and I went to another friend's apartment within the city, as the weather wasn't at its peak (it was raining like crazy). Upon our arrival, I saw my imminent love. . . a guitar! Well it was actually an electric guitar, but it was better than nothing right? So there I was trying to read the tabs and chords for Your Call by Secondhand Serenade. Now I had the introduction practically done (though I still had to look at my fingers, which I am told is an EXTREMELY bad habit). Though I also tried to learn the beginning of Wonderwall by Oasis, which to me, was also a green light as I also learnt the meaning of strumming upwards and downwards (it was shown by a u/v and a n respectively).
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Showing posts with label guitars. Show all posts
22/4
Though after a while, my guitar playing was gradually drowned out by the continuous music that was blaring from my friend's Guitar Hero, causing me to stop my guitar playing and proceed to join in their hurrah as the dreaded. . . vocals. Now I must inform you, I hate singing and can not be bothered to sing high notes so most of the times I was singing through my throat, which I am also told is a bad thing too. From playing this game, I also learnt that my coordination is greatly lacking as I was unable to play the drums. . . well I just couldn't do the foot movement at the same time as the hand movements. The guitar part of Guitar Hero was quite easy though, quite contrasting to the real guitar which hurt my fingers as a result of the metal strings.
Anyways, I just wanted to describe my experiences of Guitar Hero and the electric guitar, which I greatly enjoyed. As I plan to endeavor on my peril filled journey to purchase a guitar and to proceed to learn at least one song by heart.
20/4
Topic: Yesterday's shopping spree?
Well it wasn't exactly a shopping spree since all I bought was a t-shirt that I could wear while asleep from Peter Alexander. Though I did see this awesome jacket in Billabong though damn me not, my freaking shoulders were too broad to wear it. Right now, I'm damning to hell my bone structure and wondering why the hell I have such a broad pair of shoulders. It was such an awesome jacket too, the perfect one I must say, and they only had it in size 12 and size 10. . . it makes me kind of depressed how fat I am. After going to DFO (where all the shops are conveniently next to one another), I realised how dirt poor I am or maybe how much of a cheapo I am. Well anyways, most of the nice things that I saw were either extremely expensive or in the wrong size (too big too small, just never right!).
Anyways, I also taught myself how to read tabs and chords for the guitar! Though my learning has been halted indefinitely until I get a guitar to actually see if I've learnt it correctly. Right now, I'm just reading over some of Secondhand Serenade's tablatures, because I need to know the various chords before I can read the chords for their songs. So really, I haven't learnt the chords, but I am aware of the various ways of writing them. Which brings me back to the point of my impoverish ways, as I'm extremely tempted to purchase a $51 dollar guitar on the internet with free postage. (Click the title and you shall find it!)
So overall, I'm currently teaching myself the guitar with an imaginary guitar, and I still haven't found the perfect jacket! Or maybe I have found it, but my bone structure doesn't agree.
18/4
Topic: Wigs and guitars?
To me holidays are about meeting with friends on a total relaxed and unstressed playing field. Like today, I went to my friend's house and we ended up walking to another friend's house which was awesome. Though while at their houses, and after seeing their cool gadgets it got me back into my passion for guitars. Even without being played, I have to say the guitar is one of the most laid back instruments visually. That's probably what makes it so appealing towards me, though after trying to learn on my friend's guitar, I found that I wasn't a very good guitarist.
I would have to say, it may be as a result of my lack of musical knowledge (heck I can't even read music), though I have learnt a song through hearing it (there is hope!) Anyways, after looking up chords for a guitar, I was also plagued with the concept of either learning the guitar with my right hand or with my left. As I found it easier to play with the opposite hand that most people learn with, I found trying to learn and get my head around the different chords was probably the most difficult part of guitar playing.
Now onto wigs, I must say wigs are curious little things. I actually like them a lot, though my friends all tell me it's only because it makes you feel like you're somebody else. Wigs are probably the funniest things I have ever had the pleasure to wear, especially the 'out there' ones, that are white or bright pink. Overall, to me they're just a lot of fun and a nice way to express one's self or emotions.
Hmm... it seems that I have gotten tired of the continuous blogging everyday, maybe I shall skip it once in a while so that every entry is always going to be as fresh as my first couple.
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