Discouraged
I’ve been trying to learn John Lee Hooker’s “Boom Boom Boom Boom” for like, six weeks now. And I just can’t do it. If it’s not the timing, its the weird fucking ‘upstroke’ on the strum. Or the riffs....
View ArticleToday I Feel Better
While yesterday I was feeling very discouraged about my progress with the guitar, I feel much better today after my lesson with Mike. I brought up my concerns with him – that I didn’t really feel that...
View ArticleI. Am. Iron. Man.
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View ArticleGoddammit.
I just popped my D string, while changing strings to avoid this and I don’t have a spare.
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Appalachian X-Mas
Man, I’m soooo not going to go into the nightmare about how my flight was delayed two fucking days and they lost my luggage and then found it and whatever. Flying sucks; end of story. I am in West...
View ArticleA Year of Defeats
All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere. 2008 was a year of defeats. I don’t really know what, if any, major...
View ArticleYou Know You’re Right
I will never bother you. I will never promise to – I will never follow you. I will never bother you. Never say a word again, I will crawl away for good… (What follows is some pretty personal stuff. Do...
View ArticleAlso
This evening I transposed someone else’s music. Maynard and I are working on this because we can do it without a drummer. Ten points to who guesses what it is. (Tuning is Drop D; requires distortion...
View ArticleSaturday Night Music for the Intersection
Last night, uke came over, bringing an amp and an electric cello and then he, Maynard and I sat about annoying the neighbors for a couple hours. It was a hell of a good time. We weren’t trying to play...
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Strat-ified.
I bought another guitar today. A Stratocaster. American-made neck with Rosewood fingerboard; Nicaraguan mahogany body, vintage Fender pickups in mid and neck position, plus a hot noiseless pickup at...
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Back In Black
So, funny thing. The other day I was thinking about tracks that had recognizable “pick” openings – single strings instead of chords – because I wanted to, well, learn one. The obvious, most anthemic...
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