Never Too Late To Learn Guitar
A blog for those who are learning the guitar a bit later in life.
Archive for July, 2009
First Jam Session
In: Gibson| Gibson ES-175| Guitar| Jamming| Vox| Vox AC15CC
19 Jul 2009If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A friend of mine recently took up the bass, so we decided to get together and jam. I hate even using the word “jam” since it implies we knew what we were doing. After fiddling around for about [...]
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- Tags: Gibson, Guitar, Vox
Finger Exercises
In: Guitar| Lessons| practice tips
19 Jul 2009My guitar teacher gave me a couple finger exercise to get my fingers more limber and dexterous. Since it doesn’t take a lot of thinking you can do it while sitting around watching TV.
The first is to go through the following patterns on the same string (the number refers to the finger you use):
1, [...]
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Guitar Aficionado
In: Collecting| Collectors| Equipment| Gear| Guitar| Guitar Aficionado| Guitars| Instruments
18 Jul 2009I just discovered a new guitar magazine at the book store (it’s on the premier issue), Guitar Aficionado. Guitar Aficionado isn’t a typical guitar magazine like Guitar World. This magazine is more a lifestyle magazine who’s main hook is guitars and their collectors. In additional to articles on a collectors and their [...]
Truth Doesn’t Make A Noise
17 Jul 2009I’ve been working on learning Truth Doesn’t Make A Noise by The White Stripes on my own. It’s not a difficult song in terms of the cord progression. It’s pretty straight forward: Am -> G -> C -> D -> Am for the main part. You can find the tabs online of course. There are [...]
Stars & Their Guitars
16 Jul 2009I watched a cool documentary last night called “Stars & Their Guitars.” It’s a great look at the history of the guitar and the guitarists who play them. The focus was on Gibson, Fender, Rickenbacker and Gretsch. The documentary wasn’t just about the guitars, there was a lot of great insight into playing buy some [...]
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- Tags: Gretsch, Guitar
Finding An Instructor
In: Guitar| Guitar Theory| Instructors| Lessons| Music Theory
15 Jul 2009I’ve been looking for a good guitar teacher to being taking lessons. I’m primarily interested in playing rock, rockabilly, blues, and jazz. There are quite a few choices here in San Francisco, but I was able weed out quite a few based on their style. I was leaning towards taking lessons from a jazz player [...]
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My Three Guitars
In: Equipment| Gear| Gibson| Gibson ES-175| Gretsch| Gretsch 5120| Guitar| Guitars| Instruments| Rickenbacker| Rickenbacker 330
15 Jul 2009Rickenbacker 330
Gibson ES-175SP
Gretsch 5120
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Welcome - It’s Never Too Late To Learn The Guitar
In: Guitar
15 Jul 2009I decided to start this blog because I’m a late comer to learning the guitar. I’m not sure where I’m going to go with it, but for now I’ll just post about my experiences with taking up the guitar at a later than normal time in life.
I’m a 36 year old photographer in San Francisco [...]
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It's never too late to start learning the guitar.
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- Gretsch Country Gentleman (1)
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- Alex: Hmmm. I will have to check that out. I used to be more of a gear head, but I got sick of all the m [...]
- alittleguitar: Nice collection you've got there! [...]
