Wednesday, 3 June 2009

Bad Timing

I have a lesson in 15 minutes. So I’ll be brief.

Last time was OK. or so i thought. I played reasonably well. But we talked too much and ran out of time. So there was no new falsetto. Or am I kidding myself. Was it that he thought I was too shoddy and I needed more time to find it, to connect with the falsetto on the A’s. I went back to the basics. Sorted out the timing. The first downstroke is on the ‘and’, specifically on the 11 ‘and’ - and as any speaker knows because it’s got two syllables it not a good one for counting it out. I’ve tried going to 10 then 1-2 then 1 again to 10. But jeez that is surprisingly difficult when you’re trying to play some mean guitar.

So think of me, counting out loud as I ride my bike to my lesson, hitting the handle bars to the ‘and’. And hope I get it right in the lesson. Because in the lesson the truth is out.

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