Safety Cap's Journal: This land has trousers, this land has lots of mousers

So, I decided to get off my dead ass and learn the guitar.

Over the weekend, I picked up the next-to-the-bottom model from the local guitar shoppe. The very helpful salesman steered me away from the cheapest because the next-to-the-cheapest came with an electronic tuner. How did anyone ever tune their axe before the invention of the e-tuner? Man, it is so easy: pluck the string, then either tighten or losen the string as the little gizmo sez, and when the light is green, the trap is clean. Uh, right.

The guitar also included a DVD that had some freak reject from Kajagoogoo (the hair, man!) walk you through the basic parts of the guitar (check), how to tune it (check) and then some basic chords (oh man). I doinked around on it for a bit and then called it good.

Anyway, today was my first class. Lo and behold, but those few chords that I learned from the DVD were the ones we did first: G, A7 and D. Schweet! My fingers are totally trashed from practicing, and I have hacked the hell out of Margaritaville, but I'm actually playing it! w00t!

hey dude ...

[tomhudson]

everyone's first chords should be A minor, C, D, F, and E. Otherwise, how you gonna do them blues ...

Come on, you can do it ..

Am C D F
Am C E
Am C D F
Am E Am

.., or sum'thin like that (heck, it's easier to just play it than to remember what the chords are).

Hey, it's all fun and good. Knock yourself out!

Woah

[Safety Cap]

Don't all rock stars only know three cords? ;)

I'll try plinking around and see how it sounds. I assume "Am" is A minor, right?

Re:Woah

[tomhudson]

Yeah ... (wtf - you don't know House of the Rising Sun? I thought it was the first thing everyone learned ... right before Stairway to Heaven and (if you have a 12-string) dueling banjos)

oh, I'm agittin' OLD :-)

Dude!

[Red Warrior]

You need to give more warning before images like that! Keep us posted on how the guitar DVD works out. I'm about to finally, after getting a keyboard 3+ years ago, learn to play.

We're gettin' the band back together!!!

[Safety Cap]

All we need is bass, drums, and a frontman (or woman). :)

Re:We're gettin' the band back together!!!

[Safety Cap]

w00t!!! We can call it...

UNREAD

Wait...

And pussy-cats to eat them when the sun goes down

[BlackHat]

PS: It's Mausers [world.guns.ru]. [/:-)

Re:And pussy-cats to eat them when the sun goes do

[Safety Cap]

How're the pussy cats supposed to eat 'em when the sun goes down? :)

An fyi

[MousePotato]

great little app called PowerTab [power-tab.net] that you will find useful. Check out the powertabs [powertabs.net] site as well for some nicely done lessons and tabs to your favorite songs.

PowerTab

[Safety Cap]

Schweet! Thank you much!!!