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Sue Unit had a brainstorm in the past few days. Hey, peewee, you can't find anybody around here to play blues rhythm for you, I'll do it myself.
Neat! Begin guitar lessons. She looked up chord charts on the internet, and it took a while for me to explain what they actually mean.
Unit said it was all backward to her, up is down, top is bottom, all backward. Every time she got frustrated and laid the guitar down, I'd put it back in her hands. It's called, "the beginning."
Actually she did better with it than the first time I ever picked one up. I didn't have chord charts or a coach back then (at age 14 or so). She can already play an A-chord pretty well after only about a half hour of trying. And she's pretty close to a C chord, too.
And the ends of the fingers on her left hand are going to hurt so bad tomorrow...I've tried to prepare her for it. That's what happens.
Here she is strumming the very first guitar I ever bought for myself, around age 16 (37 years ago). It's a vintage Yamaha FG-75 that cost me 75 bucks brand new. Made in Taiwan. It actually plays good and doesn't sound too bad.
From the whole fleet of guitars I have, this is one of only two I had never named. You've got Blonde, and Honey Pump, etc. I named them all. I'd never named this one, and I'd never named the steel Dobro, which has more face time than any of them.
I told her this guitar has had miles and miles put on it. So many years, so many situations. She said, "Miles. It's named Miles."
Why didn't I ever think of that? Has anybody ever waited 37 years to be named? This guitar just did.
Here's Sue Unit and Miles the Guitar.
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Neat! Begin guitar lessons. She looked up chord charts on the internet, and it took a while for me to explain what they actually mean.
Unit said it was all backward to her, up is down, top is bottom, all backward. Every time she got frustrated and laid the guitar down, I'd put it back in her hands. It's called, "the beginning."
Actually she did better with it than the first time I ever picked one up. I didn't have chord charts or a coach back then (at age 14 or so). She can already play an A-chord pretty well after only about a half hour of trying. And she's pretty close to a C chord, too.
And the ends of the fingers on her left hand are going to hurt so bad tomorrow...I've tried to prepare her for it. That's what happens.
Here she is strumming the very first guitar I ever bought for myself, around age 16 (37 years ago). It's a vintage Yamaha FG-75 that cost me 75 bucks brand new. Made in Taiwan. It actually plays good and doesn't sound too bad.
From the whole fleet of guitars I have, this is one of only two I had never named. You've got Blonde, and Honey Pump, etc. I named them all. I'd never named this one, and I'd never named the steel Dobro, which has more face time than any of them.
I told her this guitar has had miles and miles put on it. So many years, so many situations. She said, "Miles. It's named Miles."
Why didn't I ever think of that? Has anybody ever waited 37 years to be named? This guitar just did.
Here's Sue Unit and Miles the Guitar.
pdub
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