Learning to play a musical instrument

[almaty 19]

Start playing an organ. It's easy.

How about a whistling organ?

Or a meat whistle?

or the upright organ

[NickD 202]

Guitar isn't easy to learn have to trim your fretting finger nails short and may take up to six weeks of constant playing or playing around until you develop calluses. Holding down three strings with one finger without getting a twang also takes a lot of practice. You may find you can fret better with your right hand than the normal left hand while stumping with the other. Do what feels more comfortable, forget about convention.

With any musical instrument, practice, practice, practice, with some it becomes natural, others, like me, really have to work at it. A song is actually memorized at that base of your spine as a motor action, with plenty of practice, you don't even think about playing, you just do it automatically. But if you think, will screw up.

Should I be watching for a hit record from you?

[justashooter 430]

Well that was fun. Oh yeah, and the first song we're being taught to play? "Folsom Prison Blues!!"

i learned to play johnny cash music from my dad when i was a kid. gordon lightfoot tunes are also good for guitar, as are james taylor songs.

[Big Papa Zone 93]

With any musical instrument, practice, practice, practice

Yep, I know. And I have promised myself that I will dedicate at least an hour a day to just that.

Should I be watching for a hit record from you?

Unlikely.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

If you teach yourself a couple chords, you'll be able to play the entire back catalogue of the Sex Pistols and the Ramones