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I has a guitar
Dec. 12th, 2008 01:37 pmI also has a cramping left hand from trying to learn chords. :)
The problem I've always had with playing guitar is my left hand. I can't get it to move fast enough to actually play anything.
Come to think of it, I had that problem with piano. I always had to put roughly twice the amount of practice in on the left hand part as the right hand part. My right hand knows what to do. My left hand is just not cooperative.
I am definitely NOT ambidextrous, although I can write left-handed if I have to.
What I really want is something that tells me how my fingers on the guitar strings equate to notes. Chord charts are all well and good, and that tells me how my fingers on the strings equate to chords, but I was fiddling around trying to pick out "Greensleeves" and couldn't get to the end of the first line.
Must resist the urge to go to the music store and look for some sort of music book. Don't have any money with which to buy said book anyway.
I can pick out the first little bit of "Nothing Else Matters", but that's just from watching Nicholas do it.
It all makes me think of learning clarinet when I was a kid. The clarinet book had little diagrams that told you how your hands on the clarinet holes equated to notes. It helped that I learned to read music when I was about 5. (BTW, I haven't picked up a clarinet in 20 years. In my mother's words, clarinet was never one of my great talents. I was a much better pianist, and I would still be a decent pianist if I had something to practice on. Unfortunately, the piano lives at my parents' house, and I just don't get up there that much with nothing to do but practice piano. It also needs tuning. My parents never got it tuned when they moved down here--you're supposed to tune a piano after moving it--and it's out of tune now.)
There has to be some kind of guitar book out there that tells you how fingers on strings equals notes. I just can't imagine that everybody on the planet learns to play guitar by ear or chord charts or tabulature. There has to be something out there for those of us who've been reading sheet music for ages.
The problem I've always had with playing guitar is my left hand. I can't get it to move fast enough to actually play anything.
Come to think of it, I had that problem with piano. I always had to put roughly twice the amount of practice in on the left hand part as the right hand part. My right hand knows what to do. My left hand is just not cooperative.
I am definitely NOT ambidextrous, although I can write left-handed if I have to.
What I really want is something that tells me how my fingers on the guitar strings equate to notes. Chord charts are all well and good, and that tells me how my fingers on the strings equate to chords, but I was fiddling around trying to pick out "Greensleeves" and couldn't get to the end of the first line.
Must resist the urge to go to the music store and look for some sort of music book. Don't have any money with which to buy said book anyway.
I can pick out the first little bit of "Nothing Else Matters", but that's just from watching Nicholas do it.
It all makes me think of learning clarinet when I was a kid. The clarinet book had little diagrams that told you how your hands on the clarinet holes equated to notes. It helped that I learned to read music when I was about 5. (BTW, I haven't picked up a clarinet in 20 years. In my mother's words, clarinet was never one of my great talents. I was a much better pianist, and I would still be a decent pianist if I had something to practice on. Unfortunately, the piano lives at my parents' house, and I just don't get up there that much with nothing to do but practice piano. It also needs tuning. My parents never got it tuned when they moved down here--you're supposed to tune a piano after moving it--and it's out of tune now.)
There has to be some kind of guitar book out there that tells you how fingers on strings equals notes. I just can't imagine that everybody on the planet learns to play guitar by ear or chord charts or tabulature. There has to be something out there for those of us who've been reading sheet music for ages.
