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RE: 39 #Ulog: Ouchy Fingertips & Other Jazz
I actually had a guitar in high school... I did zero with it... And I think I had nylon strings because I wasn't even committed enough to get blisters...
Gave it away...
You got way further than I ever did :D ♥
"Not even committed enough to get blisters." 😂
I'm in between you and Lyndsay, then. I have metal strings, and tried two different classes with two different teachers in college (I got my guitar as a HS graduation present). But it just doesn't compute. Presuming my hands are big enough to play the chords needed (they're often not), I can memorize a song (and get blisters), but even after two classes, I don't understand how guitars work, like, note-wise. Regular notation, tab, it doesn't matter, really, tho tab is easier. Music makes sense on a piano to me, but not a guitar, or a flute (have one of those, too).
Piano was my first instrument, and it makes a WHOLE lot more sense to my brain than the guitar does, everything being spread out all flat and easy like, yet I find it WAYYYYY harder to sing and play piano at the same time, so ... guitar it was. Though it took a damn long time to figure out what the deal was with the notes/chords. It still doesn't make sense to my brain, it's just that I've memorized where the fingers have to go. Muscle memory.
I play the flute as you just would not want to hear me sing, I'd rather manipulate my flutes to do my singing for me... the only hurt I've gained from my flute... is a broken tooth cutting my gums and like you I still could not stop under the impression that, that part of my gum would harden and the sharp of my tooth would eventually round off and be less painful... WRONG but it still didn't stop me... it was ma!! gum that had to harden... tooth has now rounded of a little although still quite sharp, but hey!!! whats a little discomfort when weighed up against the pleasure of Music... No contest. Love to ya!! Kidda!! and all your Loved ones... I will try to get Tears for Kientepoos by Mary
Youngblood on my Big Boy Flute recorded as soon as I get somebody to do the tech part but until then here is her link... give it a listen and you will see why I battled against the discomfort.. I have it pegged and you'll see why when you give it a listen that I kept at it...
Oooh wow, ouch indeed, I definitely cannot top a broken tooth from an instrument! <3 <3 Way to keep at er @blackholebridger.
I cannot wait to see you perform this, much respect!!
Yeah, muscle memory is how I type. At least on a real keyboard. 😁
@phoenixwren I took up the Flute in the hope that it would help my sequences memory that was a residue symptom affect from my head Injury, but alas NO it's muscle memory after having to drive myself into the ground in first instance to hard wire it into my two brain-cells and they're too busy arguing with each other to be of much assisstance , Ha!! Ha!! HHHhhhaaa!!! thank goodness for good 0'l Muscle Memory :)
LOL, I understand!