Wednesday, February 06, 2002

10:12:14 PM   Lesson this evening, Wednesday's are always exciting ;-)   I do my best to be embarrased as stuff I can play at home goes out the window when it comes time.  So I played a much nicer Seagull guitar tonight than mine.  Definitely have guitar envy.  One of the other instructor's was there playing afterward and man was this guy good.  I'll never get from Shoe Fly to the stuff he was playing.  Very motivating, came home and practice, practice, practice, added A note on third string which of course causes complete paralysis of the very well trained fingers next to it.  First use of the second finger on the left hand too.  This means pain until we get the calluses going.  Have to get the EZ update out today, ughhh.  Maybe later ? Wonder if this will upstream as my category updates yesterday were going anywhere without a push.

2:42:09 AM   Last quick guitar thought from today, the guitar and dishwater hands just don't go together.  Despite calluses on two fingers trying to play after doing the dishes is impossible.  Maybe I can trade this role since Someday Is Now and we need to remove all obstacles in its path ;-)   Who'd have ever thought to put doing the dishes on the risk list for this project ?

2:26:24 AM   From the newsletters from EZ, I have been pleased to others experiencing some of the same things.  Not that I didn't expect this but it is curious how some seem to have read my mind exactly.  Here are two.... "Oh sh**, he picked me." (Shepherdson, Nancy) // As bad as I wanted to do this, I've been finding ways not to do this for years and EZ did something musical so there will be sooooo many people doing something similar that he'd never pick me. He did.  In hindsight, another Sinner (Debbie Flapan) provided data to show that there are only about 10 of us doing musical SINs.  Go figure. "This is not going to be as easy as I thought."  (Patt Russo) // ; This was a killer in the first 2 or 3 days after my first lesson as I tried to play this guitar.  I mean I was only playing two strings and only with my right hand but suddenly it appeared to be much harder than I'd imagined.

1:52:21 AM   So I have a lot of SIN blogging thoughts which I haven't managed to get here because I always have a guitar in my hands and the keyboard is elsewhere.  Maybe we can Dave to add a guitar interface of some sort ? Time to hit a couple.

1:49:13 AM   So we are in the wee hours of day 37, working on line 56, measure 224  and page 12.  Doesn't sound too impressive but somehow it feels pretty good.  Last week/lesson, Clarence mentioned one of his much younger students, about 12 or 13 (man 37 feels old in these discussions especially when he uses his hand to show me just how tall they are) who asks "how many times we going to do this ?".  He means playing each wonderful piece over and over and over and over.  Clarence in his infinite guitar wisdom says "untiiil we get it right".  This is the mantra currently and the extra is (that's the letter i plural) is just Clarence's special drawl which makes his point.   My update to Eric is due and I promised I wouldn't be last this month.  We'll get this out tomorrow, whoops today.

1:28:55 AM   Just finished nightly practice session, we are now banging (and I mean banging unfortunately) out 3 chords on the lower three string.  Tonight while mixing chords and picking strings I heard something which sounded like music.  It even flowed, not like the fabulous tunes I have butchered a note at a time but the chord seemed to progress into a couple of notes and back.