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A fortnight ago now I took my guitar in to get a service, set-up and a new set of strings fitted. It was an attempt to make me start playing it once again and pick it up more frequently. It is my biggest bugbear of my bipolar (I’m relating it to this at least) that I don’t play or practice my guitar much anymore at all.
It’s nigh on nearly ten years nows since I started playing guitar and I began to have lessons. I was asked by my teacher what I wanted to achieve with the guitar and I simply said that I wanted to be able to play every Oasis song on the acoustic guitar. It mustn’t have been a popular answer to this question as he looked at me a little perplexed but nevertheless we carried on.
Each week I would message him a song that I wanted to play and baring a very select few, if he was to teach me a different artist and song I would never get home and practice it properly. I’d learn the basics and then go back to playing Oasis. I have had a few friends who have said that I need to learn other songs to be able to play guitar etc etc but I don’t agree. One close friend who is a maverick on the guitar agreed with my logic that if I can play every Oasis song I will know enough to be able to play the vast majority of every other song.
I can play Hotel California, a couple of Stereophonic’s song’s, couple of songs by the Stone Roses, and a handful of others by artists I like.
Fundamentally though, I have no interest whatsoever in learning Jimi Hendrix or Songs with electric guitar solos that are very difficult to replicate and play. This is because you’re never going to play it better than them and you can’t really put your own stamp on it because it will always be compared to the original and the way you play it will never be as good.
With playing the songs on the acoustic, you have the opportunity to play it in your own way that sounds like the original song but with your own style.
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