Nov
24
2009
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Guitar Lessons

A while ago I started learning to play the Guitar. I first used the lessons from GarageBand which is part of the Apple iLife software bundle. I already had some knowledge on how to play an instrument. I’ve had a few years of lessons in playing a Flugelhorn. But a guitar is a bit different.

I practised the first 5 lessons of GarageBand which includes some of the easier chords like : Am C D Dm E Em G. After that I looked for a song that could be played with these chords. I found one : Jolene by Dolly Parton. A nice song to get started.

Then for a while, I did not touch the guitar.

A few days ago I started playing again. I like the band “Editors” a lot and I saw a live session of them on a belgian radio channel. One of my favorite songs, at 3:15 “An End has a Start” sounded easy so I googled for guitar tabs for that song. I found this:

tinyurl.com/y99ukqt

It has the mostly the same chords and has an new chord (for me that is) that sounds like a “Dadd9″ chord. I really love that song and it’s a really good way of keeping me interested in playing guitar. The Dadd9 also helps training my fingers and getting a step further.

Just wanted to share this with on my blog and hopefully someone will come here googling for guitar lessons. Maybe this could be an inspiritation to get started or to keep practising.

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Nov
03
2009
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Great site: Album Reminder

Yesterday I found a great site, it’s called Album Reminder and it reminds you of new album releases of your favorite bands. You can enter your favorite artists or import it from iTunes. You can also just copy & paste artists from other sites like last.fm. (last.fm allows you to copy your favorite artists to the clipboard)

I haven’t had a reminder yet, but I will report back if I get one.

Written by StarQuake in: My Favorites | No Comments »

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