Topic: Bin busy but still playing
Bin a bit busy. I was learning the F shape barre chord- it took me the whole year
No, seriously, working to keep a job going in the downturn, looking after a kid and a teenager.
I have been going once a week to an adult education class. I was playing electric but I have taken up acoustic again more recently because it was time for a change of style.
We're an intermediate guitar class and we have played a couple of ensemble pieces in public. At Christmas we played 'Come as you' are by Nirvana and Silent Night. Just before Easter we played 'Blowing in the Wind' and 'Mull of Kintyre'.
That was the first time I've played in a group and it takes new skills. Playing in time helps - especially if its an arrangement for several players but so does following the right order of intro, verse and chorus. I have been known to shorten a 8 bar count-in to a two bar count-in and to miss the a repeat of the verse. However that was fortunately in rehearsal.
switching back to acoustic also meant learning new things. all my caged shapes which I played up the neck are now being played at the other end of the guitar with loads of moved fingerings to include as many open notes in each shape as possible. thats doing my head in at the moment. learning scales is always a pain. especially when you thought you already knew them.
