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Wild Rover

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The guitar playing is sloppy, the rhythm is bad and the singing would send a dog scurrying for cover but considering I'm a complete beginner I'm pretty excited by it.   It took me a few takes to get through even this single verse and chorus so it's still a work in progress but I really wanted to get this working for St. Patrick's day.   I used these chords and lyrics . A big thanks to FlynnerFolkSongs for his great tutorial on YouTube .

Learning Guitar at 50: #1

Setting out to learn something new is always interesting.  It challenges you in ways you can't begin to predict before you start.  Inevitably things you thought would be hard turn out to be easy and things you thought would be easy are harder than they look.  This is a post about the preconceived notions I held prior to starting my journey to learn guitar and my take on things now. Notions #1:  There would be plenty of internet resources to learn guitar. Reality:  There is so much information out there it's absolutely insane.  But if you simply search for 'Easy guitar songs' or some such thing you're going to get swamped with stuff of wildly differing quality and much of it geared toward players with a couple of months or more of experience.    What you really want is a structured method of learning the basics.  Luckily there are options here as well.  The program I discovered and am using is the beginner's series hosted at  justinguitar.com . The lesson

New Guitar Day

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I've been learning to play on a borrowed instrument so this is my first guitar.  I'm pretty excited actually. It's a Seagull Entourage Mini-Jumbo, manufactured in Canada,  It sounds great and feels awesome.