who loves to play guitar??

[butterfly]

well...count me in...coz i love playing guitar...

[moro]

you are going to a lone playing it coz i love listening to it

[butterfly]

oh really?...do you know how to play guitar?

[moro]

oh really?...do you know how to play guitar? i wish i knew i would join your band if you had one ......are there internet guitar lessons?

[butterfly]

to moro...
i dont think so...just try to search the web...

[luckyfelix]

i've never tried but i play cello.:D its like a huge violin. i like it when i feel the whole thing vibrate.:D :o

[butterfly]

yeah.......

[luckyfelix]

it makes me feel peaceful.:o

[Unregistered]

well...count me in...coz i love playing guitar...
hey,what r u doin

[Unregistered]

i luv plain it too

[moro]

i luv plain it too
OH you do? can you teach some one?

[BLUEOCEAN]

i took guitar lessons from 7 to 11 and 1/2. by then i couold read muysic and hear it in my head, some of it.
when i tried reading rock after learning mainly classical on a steel stringed guitar, i went through a lot of frustration.
i found reading and playing santana's music enjoyable and after playing the midnight cowboy theme song for about several months off and on on an organ. many years later i started spontaneously playing it on guitar. it sounded good and felt good. on my flight back to massachusetts after being discharged from the air force i heard a jazz riff
during that flight. when i had been at my parents home for a short while upon discharge, several months and never went back after that. I played that jazz riff. first time i was able to repeat music from just hearing it.
my brother is a good guitar player and he learned by listening to it again and again and trying to imitate it. he still plays guitar and a has about eight of them. i haven't played in years and never will again, i have nerve damage and carpel tunnel in both hands.

[caz]

i can't play, but love to listen

[taperjeangirl.]

Ive been playing the guitar since June and i find it rather easy! I just love to be able to pick it up and play your favorite songs. :D

[BLUEOCEAN]

TAPERJEANGIRL,
you may have a stronger native ability to play the guitar than i did. also, the way instruments are taught to young people or any age has changed a great deal in the last 50 years. when i played guitar many years ago, i played electric guitar, i had a gretsch acoustic electric steel string guitar and a 1973 fender amplifier. i had both for many years. it was unusual for a girl or young woman to play electric guitar and to play rock and roll on it. bonnie raitt studied slide blues guitar for many years under black male guitarists. she played, studied, and wrote her own music for years and did not "succeed" until her forties. she's one if not the only "successful" female blues playing guitarist singer who uses the slide the way she does, that i know of.
i apologize for my lack of clarity when i post. i'm limited
in the ability to express myself in a clear way.
ladylove, about my talking about "all the crap" i've experienced in my life. i kept a whole lot of stuff inside for a lot of my life. i've always been very easily shut down and was extremely stifled by coworkers and patients
at my last job. since i've left there have been times, many when i talk so fast even my therapist, case manager, and the woman prescribing my meds, have recognized i couldn't shut up and i couldn't slow down what i was saying. it's a part of having the illness of bipolar.
i had spent most of my life being a listener and was inundated with my parents venting growing up.
when i was working many of the patients and even staff
had gone through a lot of horrible stuff in their lives and
overwhelmed me with their nonstop venting. it hasn't been until the last two years that i've been able to say even to my mother, "I don't want to hear it."
or when someone is overloading me and get
away from saying how bad they've had it in their lives and tthey can't keep from talking, i'll just say "i've got to go".
and hang up. i don't have the patience, i used to. i'm not a therapist. i've read about how a married man turned to a single woman about his problems. his wife and he both would not and could not understand why she didn't want to hear about his crap. he was stalking her. other people online were telling her to get a protection order from the man. dr. phil mcgraw told one adoptive father he was out
of line for turning to and dumping all his marital problems onto his adopted teenage daughter. told her that the fights between her adoptive parents were not her fault, the parents had had problems from before they adopted her.
my dad needed to be told that by him and still needs to be told that by him.
one teenage girl wrote to dr. phil mcgraw and told him, both her parents were venting to her about all their stuff.
he told both parents they were out of line and they were inappropriate. i got vicarious therapy watching that program. that's what i grew up with and have gone through all my life with my parents.
it's what's called boundary violation.

[Sandra]

I tried to learn to play the guitar and it was really ruff on my fingers.
I think that you have to build up callouses on your fingers to play without it really hurting your fingers.

[taperjeangirl.]

TAPERJEANGIRL,
you may have a stronger native ability to play the guitar than i did. also, the way instruments are taught to young people or any age has changed a great deal in the last 50 years. when i played guitar many years ago, i played electric guitar, i had a gretsch acoustic electric steel string guitar and a 1973 fender amplifier. i had both for many years. it was unusual for a girl or young woman to play electric guitar and to play rock and roll on it. bonnie raitt studied slide blues guitar for many years under black male guitarists. she played, studied, and wrote her own music for years and did not "succeed" until her forties. she's one if not the only "successful" female blues playing guitarist singer who uses the slide the way she does, that i know of.


ooh you had a gretsch? those guitars have a great sound! yeah i hate how people think it unusual for girls to play the guitar, i dont see why, we have the same ability to artisitcally and musically express ourselves as males do.

[Sandra]

We are good in many artistic fields, I used to play the piano, but the guitar was a little hard. The cords gave me cramps in my hand and the strings were really hard on my fingers. I was trying to practice 1/2 hr. a day, so maybe I should have started with a little less time.

[GuitarJoe]

i wish i knew i would join your band if you had one ......are there internet guitar lessons?

I learned from Robben Ford's DVD series. Specifically geared towards the Blues, obviously, but he's got a great DVD called "The Blues and Beyond" too. Might as well learn from the best. They really helped me and you can find them in his website store. :)