The HighLight: New Bass! And it’s sounds FUNKY The Easy Part: Bass Strumming The Hard Part: Picking, I am just rubbish at it OK I Guess I have not been updating my blog as much as I wanted, that’s mainly because I am super lazy when it comes to blog posts and also Final Fantasy XIV and Guitar are taking up much of my time! Well I went ahead and bought a Bass and have now had my first official Bass lesson, I really enjoyed it,...

The Highlight: Maybe learning Misery, it’s a great song. The Easy Part: Apparently forgetting shit The Hard Part: Barre Chords, at least not as bad as I feared though. OK so this week saw a major introduction into my guitar playing repertoire, something I have been fearing since I first started playing as I can remember my friends bitching about it 15 years ago. Barre Chords. OK so I didn’t start crying in my lesson which is one...

The Highlight Playing Queen! The Easy Part: Riff’s aren’t that hard. The Hard Part: Reading off Tab at the same time as playing. This week I had my first real go with an electric guitar, Kirsty lent me one of hers (a beautiful Epihone) and wrote out some tabs for Queen’s “Now I’m Here” which of course, is an excellent song. The song features a lot of power chords in the intro so the first challenge was...

The Highlight: The first song I ever learn and it’s one I like The Easy Part: G Major, FTW this one’s easy. The Hard Part: Holding a pick for the first time. So I began my lessons with chords, as I assume many people do, mainly approaching rhythm and my first song was Greenday’s “Good Riddance, the central rhythm to Sweet Child of Mine and the same portion for Wonderful Tonight which I embarrassingly decided to forget was by Eric...

OK so I don’t use this blog much but that’s going to change, I am setting myself a blogging taget for this site as I usually just end up posting all my stuff over on Guardian Force. As well as any (occasional) SEM posts etc. that I decide to do I will be updating on a regular basis my progress on my latest project, learning to play the acoustic guitar. OK so why have I decided to learn to play guitar? Well there is a few...