Learning Chords

Down not out

2006-09-20T21:04:00.000-07:00

Yes. I have given up on guitar classes.
No. I have not given up guitar.
Then? I plan to practice a lot before i rejoin again

Dying?

2006-08-03T05:34:00.000-07:00

I read this in a newspaper, a blog is like a plant.

Just like a plant without any water would eventuallly die, a blog without any comments dies.
I have just killed 2 of my blogs.

One dedicated to Jimi Hendrix and other a PJ blog.

Now i only have 3 blogs and plan to keep them alive.

Long time

2005-11-22T01:48:00.000-08:00

Its been a long time since i update this blog.

Same has been about my guitar classes. I could not always go and was thats why i was losing my touch.
But i revisited my music teacher and started them again. I am still on the fretboard and cannot play any songs yet while other guys and gals who had joined with or after me are onto songs already.

After fretboard i would move on to learning Scales and then some basic songs.

I guess the first song would be "Ajeeb dastan hai yeh....". An old hindi song,which i think is pretty easy to play. (Better said then done...)

Thats about it....

Useful Guitar Links

2005-07-29T21:11:00.000-07:00

Some sites I frequently visit

What am i learning now?

2005-07-12T21:51:00.000-07:00

Right now i am learning to do the spiders still!!
They are tough!
Spiders are those when you move your fingers one string down and one fret to right
Also now i have to do it in reverse

I mean normal spider is like this
e-----------1-2-3-4------------------------1
B---------1-2-3-4--------------------------2
G-------1-2-3-4----------------------------3
D-----1-2-3-4------------------------------4
A---1-2-3-4--------------------------------5
E-1-2-3-4----------------------------------6
^
\------these are my fingers moving on the frets

i have to go the other way round
but its fun!!

Guitar

2005-06-20T02:39:00.000-07:00

Why?
Why of all things did i want to learn guitar.
Well, since i was getting bored and i came to knew that my ,now, ex-boss is a great guitarist, so i said why not lets try guitaring as a hobby.
Already i was listening to Bryan Adams songs!!

So one fine day i shelled out Rs. 1700 and bought a Givson G-125 acoustic guitar from his friend.
That was when and how i started learnign guitar.

A friend of mine, Venkat Rakesh, then introduced me to music from groups like Iron Maiden, Metallica (i was / am in love with Nothing Else Matters, but he told me abt songs like One, Unforgiven) and lots and lots of other rock groups!!

Ok! So what now?
So after i left that job, i was stagnant as far as guitaring goes....i visited some sites like Fender Players and others, took some printouts..but that was all....no practice...
My G-125 was eating dust

This is where again Rakesh came in and said "Hey", I know one guy in Mulund who teaches me drums and has other guys coming to him for guitar.....So i said "Why not!!"

So now i am learning my basic guitar under guidance of Anand Menon.

How far have I came...?
Well, its been about 8 months since i have joined the class, i go there every Sunday and have flunked a couple of times (6-8 times to be exact)

Right now i am learning to do spiders, i.e. move my fingers up and down the track of frets!!!

Where to...?

From here i will be learning scales, and then some basic tunes of Hindi songs
Wish me luck...

First Post

2005-06-15T01:20:00.000-07:00

What is this place?

Well after searching for a name to start a blog about my adventures in guitar i had to finalize on Learning Chords
This is a blog where i will posts how i am learning guitar, difficulties i faced and some tips of guitar

All in vain...

Just for a start, this is the list of Names i had to go through to find a suitable blog

guitar
guitars
guitarz
scales
chords
chordz
6strings
sixstrings
strings
weepingguitar
plecturm
plectra

And these are the ones i remembered!!

Cheers