{"id":520,"date":"2012-05-24T18:40:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/?p=520"},"modified":"2012-05-24T18:40:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T18:40:23","slug":"im-playing-the-guitar-again-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websterart.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/im-playing-the-guitar-again-may-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m playing the guitar again – May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Me playing my guitar in 1979<\/p><\/div>\n

After a 3 year dry spell, I’ve picked up the guitar again. I go through periods…long periods, where it just gathers dust. I have no idea why it suddenly occured to me that playing guitar again would be fun. There were a couple campfires where my climbing friends were playing guitars, and I envied their talent, and the beautiful music they created.<\/p>\n

So maybe that’s it. It’s Spring, I am feeling creative, and guitar is my way to express that creativity. I have a box full of sheet music dating back to the seventies when I first started playing. I’ve boiled that down to a 3 inch binder, but really, I only play about 12 songs, and focus on about 3: Yesterday, Stairway to heaven, and an original composition I wrote 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

I prefer instrumental guitar, primarily because Sue has to leave the room when I try to sing….yes, I’m that bad.<\/p>\n

I love to work complicated progressions, and I’m slowly transitioning away from flat picking to finger picking. It’s very cool to nail a long progression. There is a beauty in a perfectly played melody…it’s almost a zen thing.<\/p>\n

Playing the guitar is a nice break from computer work. I’ve been teaching myself some new programming languages for a freelance project. When I get tired of making things pretty on the computer, I switch to my wooden guitar, and make things pretty there…it’s a nice mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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