. . . . I think I can hear you strumming on a guitar Britta! You'll have to make a video with sound so we can hear you. Good luck - I've never learned that instrument.
Dear Mary, when I was very young I had some lessons on the guitar, but my teacher went back to Yugoslavia and the next one always insisted that I had to play Spanish etudes - but I wanted to play like Elvis. Thus my lessons stopped after a short time...
I wonder if the middle aged or older brain is capable of learning brand new skills. Our brains are so full of stuff we learned as children and young adults, people complain about memory loss :( I hope you get heaps of pleasure from the guitar.
Dear Helen, that is one of three reasons why I want to learn an instrument: forcing the brain (and the fingers) to learn something new. Before the pandemic I started in Berlin to study Dutch philology, 3 semesters (and they offered me to write a doctoral dissertation, so I can't have been an utterly failure :-). Then I moved for a great part of my time to Bavaria AND the wonderful classes stopped - only video lessons. So I read and write alone and am as often as I can in the Netherlands. (And proud that I have a real friendship with two of the students till now - each time I am in Berlin we meet, and otherwise we WhatsApp and telephone). Forgetting what I wanted to fetch in the kitchen happens to me too :-)
Also I've got one - a baritone which is tuned DGBE with a low D string like a guitar, whereas yours is GCEA with a high G. On standard ukulele's I have to imagine I'm playing guitar at fret 5 to play the correct chords.
I know.
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ReplyDelete. . . . I think I can hear you strumming on a guitar Britta!
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to make a video with sound so we can hear you.
Good luck - I've never learned that instrument.
Dear Mary, when I was very young I had some lessons on the guitar, but my teacher went back to Yugoslavia and the next one always insisted that I had to play Spanish etudes - but I wanted to play like Elvis. Thus my lessons stopped after a short time...
DeleteI wonder if the middle aged or older brain is capable of learning brand new skills. Our brains are so full of stuff we learned as children and young adults, people complain about memory loss :( I hope you get heaps of pleasure from the guitar.
ReplyDeleteDear Helen, that is one of three reasons why I want to learn an instrument: forcing the brain (and the fingers) to learn something new. Before the pandemic I started in Berlin to study Dutch philology, 3 semesters (and they offered me to write a doctoral dissertation, so I can't have been an utterly failure :-). Then I moved for a great part of my time to Bavaria AND the wonderful classes stopped - only video lessons. So I read and write alone and am as often as I can in the Netherlands. (And proud that I have a real friendship with two of the students till now - each time I am in Berlin we meet, and otherwise we WhatsApp and telephone).
DeleteForgetting what I wanted to fetch in the kitchen happens to me too :-)
Give us a clue.
ReplyDeleteAs you mock me, Tom: The glue is an u!
DeleteUkelele? That was a trick clue! Not a guitar after all!
DeleteYou've got it! Yeah!
DeleteLearning to play guitar should be fun. Do you play other instruments as well?
ReplyDeleteAs a child, Susan, I had to learn the unloved English flute, and that short Intermezzo with the guitar, as I told Mary above.
DeleteI tried to learn, but gave up. Laura picked it up straight away.
ReplyDeleteIf I fail, Joanne, I have 3 little girls of whom one might be eager to learn.
DeleteNot now - they are only 2 and a half year :-)
I think it is old man instrument in Great Britain. But enjoy the 4 strings.
ReplyDeleteBeauty is in the eye of the beholder, Rachel - and old British men I adore (some like it hot).
DeleteNow we've guessed, google Helen Garner My Ukulele And Me.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tasker - I am really surprised when I looked Helen Garner up.
DeleteAnd: I was sure that you guessed right, because I think that you are someone who looks very accurately.
Also I've got one - a baritone which is tuned DGBE with a low D string like a guitar, whereas yours is GCEA with a high G. On standard ukulele's I have to imagine I'm playing guitar at fret 5 to play the correct chords.
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