Retired Role Playing Fan Fiction - Author Created Characters

Some random advice: 1. Take lessons from a local instructor. Learning guitar is hard. Having an instructor vastly improves your chances of success. 2. When you're learning chords, just hold the chord while you're watching tv. Strum it a little bit during commercials. At first when you pull your hand away, you have to carefully reposition your fingers. After a while you'll notice that your hand will snap back to that spot. Once it does that, you'll start to be able to just grab that chord without positioning your fingers. 3. Once you can grab the chord reliably, start working on a 2nd chord. Once you can grab 2 reliably, start switching between them 4. When you're actually practicing instead of just holding chords while watching Dukes reruns, focus on having good timing. That's a critically important skill. Go as slow as you need to. Whether you use a metronome, a youtube drum track or play along with the song, timing is everything.   Even if you can only strum the chord once per beat, your timing is always your priority. 4a. Learn to tap your foot to the beat. Do it to every song on the radio when you're not practicing. Make it become 2nd nature, because you'll need it to keep good time, especially when you start getting to songs with stuff that's off the beat. 5. A bunch of old Waylon and Hag songs are only 2 chords.  6. This probably should have gone near the top, but take your guitar to a competent tech or luthier for a setup. Make sure he knows that you're a beginner and he should be able to set up the guitar with lighter strings and lower action. This will make it easier to play.  Like I said above... learning is hard, and frankly, it's a lot harder when you start on acoustic.  It's bigger, it's farther from your body, it's harder to see what you're doing, the strings are thicker and they're farther from the frets.   Hope this helps.  

The French Dukes of Hazzard words in English. You got the blues inside We can see it in your eyes The blues is pretty good  Ok, but you have to put some country in your mood Dream in the day And make your honey With the fire that shines In every girl's eyes The country life is the one I have chosen I can tear your fog With a single guitar chord Don't be pushed around again Without playing the bad man If there's a law You will have to show your claws And make the Sheriff go

I like all these teams except the Patriots! ( They're in the Dolphin's division you know!)  I'm sorry Garrett! Chin up bud! Maybe you can find one of the remaining teams to root for!

Sorry Garrett. That was painful.  4 teams left.  Patriots travel to Broncos.  Rams travel to Seahawks.  There are no teams I care about so I'm done with football.  Good thing I have dirt bike races.  

RAMS WIN!! WOW!