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my guitar is kicking my butt

On July 25, 2010 · 5 Comments · In mayalife, yoga

Maya vs. the guitar, round 3.

So, I’ve gotten to the part of learning guitar where one attempts to learn barre chords. You know, the ones where you use your index finger to fret, or press down, all six strings at once, what a freaking nightmare. Steel strings, under upwards of 200 lbs of pressure….. [...]

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musical interlude

On July 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In mayalife

I love this.

It’s a cover of an Andy McKee song, “Drifting.”

Here is Andy himself, doing a cover of of one of my favorite 80s songs, “Africa,” by Toto.

And this dude, Justin King, I’m surprised his hands don’t just burst into flame.

It’s a bit that ran under the [...]

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next level guitar review

On July 18, 2010 · 6 Comments · In mayalife, reviews

Maya Vs. The Guitar, part 2

So, I’ve been playing every day for a month.  One month!  I’m such a noob.  But I’m such a proud noob! I started out, literally not knowing which side of the guitar was up (fat string to the ceiling, skinny string to the floor, okay, got it).  But [...]

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guitar/yoga/reading–on not hurrying, or, it takes as long as it takes

On July 7, 2010 · 3 Comments · In kiddo life, mayalife, yoga

My guitar playing is coming along.  I think I have a bit of a head start because of my piano playing, back in my previous life. I remember I first wanted to learn to play piano when I was seven or eight because the music teacher in my first grade class could play and I thought [...]

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sungha jung makes my day

On June 28, 2010 · 3 Comments · In reviews

I had the Beatles song “Blackbird” stuck in my head all day the other day.  Man, would I like to be able to play that pretty guitar solo bit!  It suddenly occurred to me that I bet someone has put up a ‘how to play Blackbird’ tutorial on youtube, and sure enough, there are about [...]

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maya vs. the guitar, round 1

On June 18, 2010 · 3 Comments · In adventures, mayalife

See those lines?  Those are the indentations a guitar string makes on one’s fingertips after a round of practice.  Doesn’t the photo angle of this make me look like I have weird distorted fingers???  Kind of freaky ain’t it?

Whoever thought it would be a good idea [...]

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in which i pick up another hobbie because lord knows i needed something else to do with my butt-loads of free time

On June 14, 2010 · 6 Comments · In adventures, kiddo life, mayalife

It all started with this:

This is the ‘string bowl’ that Luc made.  He walked around the yard strumming and singing to himself for several days.  He just charms the heck out of me.  I told Paul about it and said if his Magical Mystery Manifestation superpower could get on the [...]

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