A repair guy for where I live came by to look at a problem I turned in to the office. We got to talking about music. I play guitar and have one or two sitting out for ease of use. It was great. We got to talk about the different recording issues we’ve both run into with some of the stuff on the computer. We’re neither one big operations. We just thought it’d be great to be able to record our music. We talked about different guitar things and pianos and such and I had a great time. He couldn’t fix the problem that day so we scheduled for him to come back the next week.
The next week was Friday, I was the last stop for the repair guy and we got to talking again.
We broke out the guitars and started some playing. I mostly play classical style stuff. I’m trying to learn flamenco, slowly. I know a few popular things, I can read music and chord diagrams so I can strum play a lot of stuff. I haven’t really been working on learning a lot of songs though. This guy new several more well known songs off the top of his head and he plays a blues style stuff that I’d like to figure out how to play. I want to figure out slide as well. *sigh*
I had a great time playing music with the repair guy. I learned something interesting. I have always been modest and apologetic about my playing. I am mostly self taught, though, I read music. I’m not very good at playing by ear. My music theory is very limited. I run into these people that either have all the theory or are phenominal players that have learned by ear and I don’t figure I can compete.
Well, I can’t. However; it is not because I am not good. I am very good at playing what I know. I don’t know a lot of songs because I am thorough and single minded when it comes to learning a song. I play classical style guitar with a fair bit of finger work. When start a new song I will practise it for several times in a row. When I sit down to play/practise I will play the songs I know already first to keep them fresh and then I will play the song I am working on several times. Then I go back and play the familiar songs again and then the new song. I will do this over and over until I get to where I can play all the familiar songs and the new song without any notational reference.
The really cool thing about getting to play music with the repair guy is, he was just as impressed with what I can play and I was with what he could play. How cool is that.
I am currently not the most versed or versitile guitar player and that’s ok. Maybe some day. And maybe now that I know this about playing music, I might find in me the need or desire to learn some of those other songs, and maybe even the ability. It’s so cool what you can learn Playing Music.
Originally published at: suguayproductions.com/joomla which has been discontinued.
