List the things That Make You Want To Play Guitar
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Something keeps driving me...not sure what it is...I have to play everyday.
RVA
Ambassador
I do not believe that for one instant. We need to get together so I can show you what poor guitar playing is first hand! It is basically the same as my recordings, but with more low end!
I'm inspired to play guitar because I read on a guitar forum that people will like me & chicks will dig it.
Other than that , it's just plain fun.
Other than that , it's just plain fun.
Gahr
Ambassador of Blues & Brews
On a more serious note, Tony has a point. It is cheaper than a shrink. Or, here technically it isn’t since health care is free, but that’s not the point.
It keeps my mind healthy. Playing the guitar gives me an outlet where I can express feelings I am not capable of putting into words. It sounds lame, but it is still true. Without that opportunity I guess I wouldn’t go mad, but I sure would lead a less happy life.
It keeps my mind healthy. Playing the guitar gives me an outlet where I can express feelings I am not capable of putting into words. It sounds lame, but it is still true. Without that opportunity I guess I wouldn’t go mad, but I sure would lead a less happy life.
I should add, I play because I can. I'm an average at best guitar player, but that still puts me in an elite group. Most of the population doesn't even know how to properly hold a guitar. I play because it's fun. I play because it's good for the hands. I'm not a pup anymore and I'm afraid I'm getting a touch of arthritis in my hands. I never warmed up before.... I tend to do some easy stuff to get fingers loose now. I play because it's good for the soul. I play because I love music... pretty much any form. There's nothing quite like after a crappy day at work, plugging in and rattling the windows and waking the neighbors. For a short time, nothing else matters.
Col Mustard
Ambassador of Perseverance
Music is my life's work... and my first love.
So is poetry, and the music is a vehicle to help the poetry roll.
That pulls me along too, so I need to play often.
I learned as a young man that the place for the poet in our
culture is up front, onstage, with a guitar.
Most everything else I do is just busywork, to make the music
possible. I usually don't tell anyone that.
If you want to be a poet but you can't sing and you have no
sense of rhythm, I suggest you work really hard to be the best
writer you can be, but also learn how to sell cars.
The need to play guitar comes
from all the music percolating inside me,
sometimes it just foams a little,
sometimes it explodes.
A guitar is like a lightning rod for this phenomenon.
I can feel it when I get my hands on the strings.
The guitar focuses me down to a point
where chords change in my heart's sound track,
and the guitar makes ladders between the changes.
The guitar forms ornaments
at the ends of the lines of a lyric...
like beads of rain on a pine branch tip after the storm,
when the sun comes out.
The guitar gives strength and imperative to the verses,
and it can show the singer where to breathe...
If you want to be a poet, music is a viable way to make it work.
There are only a few other ways to be a poet and get paid for it:
>Work for Hallmark... (not recommended)
>Learn how to pass tests, and get a Ph'D, and do the professor biz.
This course is only for high achievers (publish or perish) ...and there are
very few high achievers in the poetry biz. They can achieve more (make
more money) in other arenas.
>Become a critic... (not recommended)
>Do all the professor stuff listed above, but if you're not a high achiever
and if you're not into totally cut-throat academic competition, you could
get into government work and administer programs to help troubled youth
and addicted single moms, and juvenile offenders to gain self confidence
and leave the world of drugs and crime... through poetry. *grins
(personally, I don't know how the hell that could work.... that's why I play guitar).
So is poetry, and the music is a vehicle to help the poetry roll.
That pulls me along too, so I need to play often.
I learned as a young man that the place for the poet in our
culture is up front, onstage, with a guitar.
Most everything else I do is just busywork, to make the music
possible. I usually don't tell anyone that.
If you want to be a poet but you can't sing and you have no
sense of rhythm, I suggest you work really hard to be the best
writer you can be, but also learn how to sell cars.
The need to play guitar comes
from all the music percolating inside me,
sometimes it just foams a little,
sometimes it explodes.
A guitar is like a lightning rod for this phenomenon.
I can feel it when I get my hands on the strings.
The guitar focuses me down to a point
where chords change in my heart's sound track,
and the guitar makes ladders between the changes.
The guitar forms ornaments
at the ends of the lines of a lyric...
like beads of rain on a pine branch tip after the storm,
when the sun comes out.
The guitar gives strength and imperative to the verses,
and it can show the singer where to breathe...
If you want to be a poet, music is a viable way to make it work.
There are only a few other ways to be a poet and get paid for it:
>Work for Hallmark... (not recommended)
>Learn how to pass tests, and get a Ph'D, and do the professor biz.
This course is only for high achievers (publish or perish) ...and there are
very few high achievers in the poetry biz. They can achieve more (make
more money) in other arenas.
>Become a critic... (not recommended)
>Do all the professor stuff listed above, but if you're not a high achiever
and if you're not into totally cut-throat academic competition, you could
get into government work and administer programs to help troubled youth
and addicted single moms, and juvenile offenders to gain self confidence
and leave the world of drugs and crime... through poetry. *grins
(personally, I don't know how the hell that could work.... that's why I play guitar).