With two wives I'm surprised you're not singing the blues!
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For anyone with an electric guitar and a 3.5mm↔️1/4" adapter/cable-jack, checkout Fee[dB]ack.
Also obligatory fuk Ubisoft lol.
Whoah thanks for this! I’ve been trying to catch an electric at a yard sale or similar and this will certainly help get me going!
Holy shit! In my efforts to learn over the years the closest I ever got was with Rocksmith, this looks like my next attempt is gonna be with Fee[dB]ack!
Same brother, 2 months ago I picked up a pawn shop guitar after 15 years of not playing. It feels good to suck cause at least I'm trying. Keep it up that creative outlet is good for you
That's great to hear! Yeah, creativity is good, but I sucks ass when depression hits you straight in the face, and all (and I mean fucking ALL) of my artistic side went straight out the window. I'm very happy I got some of it back, just hope my other hobbies also get back on track.
this week marks the first time my drum kit (and specifically my double pedal hardware) has been assembled (and all on the same property) in 20 years!!!
I picked up mine, and hung it back on the wall. To collect dust again, next to the ukelele. Wish I had made myself learn music.
I found that rather than 'learning music', it's more fun and engaging to learn songs. When it's fun, you're more likely to stick with it than learning scales or whatever. You can do that later if you want.
Grab that Uke. Get the Uchord app. Go to Ultimate-Guitar.com (you can switch between guitar and uke tabs), pick a song you know and like, play the track in the background and practice playing the chords. Pause when you encounter a tricky chord change, stop the track and practice going back and forth between those two chords until it's fluent. Continue and repeat until you can play the whole song without the background music. Note UG will show you chord patterns, but Uchord will show you all the inversions as well. Sometimes a different inversion makes for an easier chord change.
Each time you learn a new song, the next one gets easier and faster to learn.
That's how I did it, anyway, when I picked up ukulele as an aging adult.
Hope that gives you a bit of inspiration to try.
Laughing at "aging adult" . I'm retired. Very very close to 70. Thanks for the suggestions! Will do!
I don't know where you're located, but around here there's monthly ukulele meetups where they meet at a sports club or RSL and have a sing/play along, and sometimes offer beginners courses. They're pretty popular with retirees especially. They're a good night out.
Congrats on picking back up your old skill and finding some joy in it brother! I've been trying to learn how to play for around 30 years or so and never even got smoke on the water, just keep on strumming man!
My nylon has been out of use a while since I decided to try fixing the top finish a bit. Did the final polish last night and I guess it's time to put some strings on again.
Keep on playing.
I bought a (used) guitar years ago and finally took a few lessons some months. I can hit a few chords, no complete songs (yet) and learned that over 60 maybe isn't the best time to start (My fingers just won't get up to speed or my brain is slower or the two of them have some plot going.) Anyhow, It's like my welding. I'm no good at it. Sometimes I succeed. However, i'm having so much fun doing it that I keep on doing it.
Excellent. Classical is fantastic for the string’s forgiveness - steel-string acoustics are like playing a cheese grater if you don’t already have the calluses.
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