I've gotten into learning the guitar since I've had some physical issues with walking. I'm clearly no prodigy in any sense of the word, but I do enjoy learning. It is a challenge to me, especially since I've never played any instrument in my life until my mid 50's.
Besides learning to play, I'm fascinated at the workmanship and sheer artistry that goes into some of the acoustic guitars. Not that electric guitars cannot be extremely nice too, they just are not what I consider family heirlooms as so many different guitars are. The best part is that many, if not most, really nice acoustic guitars have electronics built in or easily added.
I've not quite fallen off the deep end and begun collecting guitars like I have firearms, but I do have a few extremely nice and very beautiful guitars. A couple are going on the wall as art. The attention to detail is unreal. Again, there are probably a lot here who know that quite well. It is just a new exciting hobby for me. The benefit is that I can pluck or strum out tunes that, if you try hard enough, you can recognize and by studying music theory I am beginning to understand how music is built on concepts/rules like working off the root note in major and minor pentatonics, arpeggios, mode shapes like ionian, dorian, phrygian, mixolydian aeolian etc. etc.
There are some great music theory instructors out there on YouTube who teach you a LOT free. One guy, who by looks I would never have pegged him as a music theory professor and an EXTREMELY good guitar player named Steve Stine. I started out trying to learn the fretboard online from him here Steve Stine beginner's mastery of the fretboard
So, how many plays are there out there?
Besides learning to play, I'm fascinated at the workmanship and sheer artistry that goes into some of the acoustic guitars. Not that electric guitars cannot be extremely nice too, they just are not what I consider family heirlooms as so many different guitars are. The best part is that many, if not most, really nice acoustic guitars have electronics built in or easily added.
I've not quite fallen off the deep end and begun collecting guitars like I have firearms, but I do have a few extremely nice and very beautiful guitars. A couple are going on the wall as art. The attention to detail is unreal. Again, there are probably a lot here who know that quite well. It is just a new exciting hobby for me. The benefit is that I can pluck or strum out tunes that, if you try hard enough, you can recognize and by studying music theory I am beginning to understand how music is built on concepts/rules like working off the root note in major and minor pentatonics, arpeggios, mode shapes like ionian, dorian, phrygian, mixolydian aeolian etc. etc.
There are some great music theory instructors out there on YouTube who teach you a LOT free. One guy, who by looks I would never have pegged him as a music theory professor and an EXTREMELY good guitar player named Steve Stine. I started out trying to learn the fretboard online from him here Steve Stine beginner's mastery of the fretboard
So, how many plays are there out there?