StarQuake's Blog » Apple http://starquake.nl my blog about music and kiting Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:03:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Guitar Lessons http://starquake.nl/2009/11/guitar-lessons.html http://starquake.nl/2009/11/guitar-lessons.html#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:57:43 +0000 StarQuake http://starquake.nl/?p=85 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.

]]> http://starquake.nl/2009/11/guitar-lessons.html/feed 0 Been using my MacBook for a few days now http://starquake.nl/2008/10/been-using-my-macbook-for-few-days-now.html http://starquake.nl/2008/10/been-using-my-macbook-for-few-days-now.html#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:03:00 +0000 StarQuake http://leo.dev2.cmspartner.nl/?p=13 and I like it!!! It’s nice and small but packed with features. The webcam is very good too. And I like the way it resumes from standby in about a second.

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Oh well, it will even be a bigger surprise once it arrives…

]]> http://starquake.nl/2008/10/still-waiting-for-my-macbook.html/feed 0 Sold my Mac Mini and bought a Mac Book http://starquake.nl/2008/10/sold-my-mac-mini-and-bought-mac-book.html http://starquake.nl/2008/10/sold-my-mac-mini-and-bought-mac-book.html#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:17:00 +0000 StarQuake http://leo.dev2.cmspartner.nl/?p=11 Since I’m going back to school I sold my Mac Mini and bought a Mac Book. Can’t wait for it to arrive. Don’t know if I’m gonna install Ubuntu or stick with Mac OS X. I’ll certainly install Ubuntu once just to see what I prefer. Maybe I’ll install it dual boot.

Will post some pics when it arrives.

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