Blog Entries for william6691

Just for fun

william6691

I've uploaded a small audio piece that I put together for fun. I was practicing the basic rhythm lesson and decided to add to it a bit. Nothing serious, but when you can practice a lesson and not just learn it but have fun with it, then at least for me, I seem to learn better....feel free to check it out on my profile page and comment if you like, but please don't be overly critical.

A question for all guitar players

william6691

I would like to know what guitar players of all ages think of the new game series "Guitar Hero". While I enjoy the occasional video game (usually 1st person shooters) I find this one kind of......stupid and annoying. I guess it just that when I was young we didn't have vid games like today, we had to go to an arcade. I see kids now at Best Buy clicking away on the little plastic guitars trying to get a high score and I just wonder what's the point? I guess it could be the [...]

A quick update

william6691

Well, I appreciate the aspiring (and perspiring) guitar players who have checked out my blog. I have been busy working on some basic lessons, just getting itno the groove of things so to speak.... Believe it or not I have had lots of fun with the basic rhythm lesson. While I can can play the rhythm for Metallicas "Thru the Never" note for note, sitting down and playing a specific strum pattern is challenging especially when it's me, my acoustic, and a metronome...tick,...tick,...ti [...]

Back to basics..

william6691

I guess this is where it all begins. I have played guitar for lots of years but never very seriously. Now I have decided to start (re-start) from the beginning to rebuild the foundations and see how good a musician I can be. I guess since I'm back to the beginning then good place to start is with the simple wonder of the intrument itself. I look back on it now and I remember the first time I touched a guitar and strummed across the open strings:

What can this strange device be?

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