Everything Bianca

Yes. Easy Mode.

Let's begin from the beginning.

This week practice was rather... clunky. Take that along with my further listening to Judas Priest and picking out what I could and could not play with an acoustic. 

"Why don't you give up and play an electric guitar?" I asked myself.

Well? Why don't I? I promised myself that if I played guitar for 6 months and still enjoyed it, I could [get a guitar teacher, but I broke that rule so...] buy myself another / better guitar. Next month will be 6 months.

Ask your teacher, I chided. 

So I brought it up with him today. Should I just give it up and go with electric?
He stood up and handed me an electric guitar and plugged it in. "Play this for the session today," he told me.

I laughed the first few minutes. "Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to Easy Mode!" I thought to myself. My goodness, the thing is like butter under my fingers. Utterly effortless. No wonder I read all those recommendations to 'barely' press the strings. Well, you can't do that with Patience. Barely pressing her strings is what you do in order to make no sound at all.

That was strike one in Patience's imaginary coffin.

Strike two had to do with my ignorance. Yes. Ignorance. To yourself always be true and such.

"Why don't people play finger style on electric guitar?" I asked, seeing no significant difference as I played Blackbird. 

He began to explain and then I summed up his words.

"Prejudice? That's it? There's no real reason? You mean I can play fingerstyle with an electric just fine?!" <-- I'm typing that the way I felt it. I sounded more bewildered. Strike two, all the way. Nothing stopping me from fingerstyle, and if I want, bluegrass. Ignorance really, but since no one ever mentioned it, I thought there was some kind of actual impediment.

Live and Learn.

Strike three. Final blow.

We were discussing the Beatles and how Blackbird was the only song by the Beatles that I liked. I like plenty other Beatles songs, but I liked them as played by other people. The discussion moved to Yesterday, and he began to play the chords on my guitar. 

"Wow. Your guitar is hard to play."

Okay, I wouldn't say hard, but Patience certainly isn't easy mode. Without Patience, I wouldn't have these wicked callouses so quickly. I wouldn't have named her so aptly, and ... other stuff. Who knows. I don't regret having my guitar. Had to start somewhere.

It's just really time to move on. And why buy a nylon acoustic when an electric does the same thing, and plus some? Probably something to do with resonance and body and stuff, but um, yeah, not that important. 

I'll take easy mode now, and by now, I mean some time in June / July. I have to get back from Hawaii first.