51 Reply by TheOnlyTaylor

(3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)

I actually met the guy in my choir class and somehow it got around to him that I played guitar. Turned out that there was a day in choir where we all turned in our music and after that we got to just sit around.

So after I finished with that I went into a practice room to play guitar, So ha came in and asked me a few general questions. That's when I found out he didn't really want me to teach him guitar. He really just wanted to see me play and he wanted to ask me how I got as good as I had gotten (personally I'm not sure where I'm exactly at)

but it was cool I showed him a couple of fairly simple patterns like power chords and he told me he was taking a guitar class in school (this was actually the same guitar class that got me really playing guitar in the first place, so I figured he'd be in good hands.)

oh, and his name wasn't andy, it was some Russian name, I-man is how you'd pronounce it, I'm not to sure how to spell it though.

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52 Topic by TheOnlyTaylor

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A while back in high school this foreign exchange students asked me if I wanted to teach him some guitar. The only Problem was.....He was missing a left hand : /
frankly I really didn't know what to say, but I thought about about it and I realized there may be couple of things I could show him

(although the whole time i was thinking to myself, "I can help you with the strumming but the chords are going to be a little tough...." I didn't actually say that to him)

So I said yes. He kind of had a wrist on his left hand so I figured I could just show him some bar chords he could play in drop tunings and then maybe I'd show him how play single notes... Later on I found out he had a left handed guitar (not really, he just switched the strings).

Doses anyone else have any super random guitar stories?

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53 Reply by TheOnlyTaylor

(11 replies, posted in Acoustic)

I know one. Recently I've been playing on stage with guitar at my church and although I can play Bm pretty well it gets to be a pain after a while I do a Bm that's a little different when the transition is a little to awkward and I don't have time to practice as much as I would need to. The simplified version looks a lot like the D chord except on the G string you play a B rather than a C# it get's almost the exact same sound (unless the chord you just played was D, in that case just add the next note to Bm going down to make it stick out a little)

So far this had worked out just fine : D

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54 Reply by TheOnlyTaylor

(15 replies, posted in Acoustic)

I've only been playing for about a year. The only injuries I've come across have been
1) My left or right fingers tend to swell up every once in a while
2) I was in a high school gym class and the basket ball hit my finger the wrong way. I had to stop playing guitar for a couple of days because it had made my left index finger purple and it swelled up a whole bunch D;
#2's not really a guitar injury but I guess it effected my guitar playing.

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55 Reply by TheOnlyTaylor

(20 replies, posted in Acoustic)

I have an Idea that might speed up your guitar playing. Pick an absolutely impossible song and make it your goal to eventually learn how to play that song. Personally I picked Stairway to Heaven, although its not absolutely impossible it is way out of my rang as far as my skill on the guitar goes. If I work towards that goal its definitely going to shove me out of my normal routine and I'll have to really start pushing myself to get better. : D

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