I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the guitar since I was in my early 20s, and it’s not getting any less dysfunctional. I practise on occasion, moon over guitar magazines and tabs, and generally fanny around in a wan and flappy manner that let me tell you readers is not attractive to the ladies. I can hear Clare’s teeth gritting whenever I pick up my Argos special.
Perhaps I need a new direction, away from tabs and scales and chords and set tunings. Explore the instrument, and find out how to relate to the object as mine, rather than it dictating terms to me.
To that end, I was delighted to find an article on the Half-Japanese website. How To Play Guitar by David Fair could well be the paradigm shift I need.
Clare, baby … sorry in advance.
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