Everything Bianca

I had a brief free for all wherein I tried to play every familiar song I could find off 911tabs.com. I broke my own "rule." Get used to this. I give myself rules. Break them. Then wax poetical as to why I shouldn't have made the rule in the first place. The broken rule: Don't get punch drunk on tabs. Learn one song at a time.

I went on a bender, and I'm happy for it. It made me want to learn theory even more. After those few days of eeking through chords, I wanted to be able to "get creative" with them, and I realized I couldn't. I didn't know how.

For instance, a favorite song of mine: Convoy by CW McCall. I wanted to get funky with it... and I had nothing in my arsenal. The agony! I can play the chords though. I even learned a different voicing for B7 this evening that I could actually reach. 

So, seeking out chords only brought me closer to wanting to know theory and practice scales and understand how music is truly formed, so that I can take a song and make it my own, when I finally know how. Maybe I'll even come back to Convoy once I know how to fingerplay a chord. 

On the nails, I'm balking on acrylic. I have beautiful, strong nails already. I'm going to work with what I've got before I turn to acrylics. 

Last, I have a spiritual side to me, and playing the guitar is fitting seemlessly into that. I'll expound on the later. The hour grows late. :P