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Diary — 24 April 2017:
I wish I had practiced the guitar better. Not more, but better. I wish I had practiced the 5 instruments I picked up, better. Not more, but better.
I was so used to the pitches that I sang in Hindustani classical music that it never even occurred to me to listen to the actual pitches being used in other styles like Indonesian or Persian or even pop.
“Instruments are so hard to tune,” he thought. He had been fiddling with the tuning pegs for hours now and it was no closer to being in tune than when he started. He didn’t know what was wrong but he…
The spoiler’s in the title so let me get right to it. I don’t have the best memory in the world by a long shot, so I’m constantly searching for ways to remember that work for me. I’ve tried a bunch of…
I went to my first music lesson when I was 4 years old. It was a guitar class after school hours in one of our classrooms at St. Patrick’s Convent. I remember struggling with maintaining awareness of both hands while my teacher constantly reminded me to…
It was in my college years that I really took the plunge deep into rhythm and for that matter, music as well. Like countless other guitarists, my first song on stage was Hotel California by The Eagles. At the time though, I was really into metal music (to…
This story has a lot to do with singing and playing guitar together but the main lessons are about rhythm, making this accessible to a general music-learning audience. Enjoy!
