Joined:
February 2005
Posts: 253
Location: New Orleans | "I guess when you want to play bad enough...nothing will stop you."
When I was 8-ish, I wanted to learn guitar but my Mom already had me in piano lessons with my neighbor right next door.(free lessons!)
There was a guitar/voice teacher RIGHT across the street (he was an Ovation man) and he gave me free voice lessons for the first 8 years that I was in school but when I asked for guitar lessons Mom told me that I had to pick one, either piano or guitar.
So, I stayed with the piano but got a huge chord sheet from the guitar/voice teacher and learned guitar on my own.
The weird thing was that before he'd taught me how to tune my guitar, I had already tuned it by ear to a full open D chord, that way I could barre anywhere on the fretboard and it would be a full chord! It took me a while to stop playing that way because it was so dang EASY. He was quite amused by that but thanks to him and that chord sheet, I learned REAL chords and even though I have a strange finger-picking technique, I can play most anything I hear!
***Where IS that guitar teacher?*** He was SO into Ovation guitars that I'd expect him to be a member here... |
Jimmy Cliff and his upside down Ovation
