Guitar & Me ... Collide

If i remember correctly, the first time I officially played guitar in front of others was Bible Study @ dk's? dk kindly invited me to play the guitar for our singspiration before the Bible study. That was like a few months after I picked up guitar... had a few lessons from AMS mini school beginner guitar course. I already owned a guitar by that time and decided to further my guitar learning down the road.

That become a disaster I will never forget. I played extremely awful. hahaha.. actually, I don't think I was playing guitar... cuz I don't think I knew how to play it at that time, even though I thought I did. Yea, I thought I could play it or at least i could do it with some practice, so I accepted dk's invitation. But that was just a wrong decision. Just curious, do you remember what I played? haha... it's funny to say but to be honest, I think my wanting to show off was the main reason I decided to give it a try. It's funny and ironic because I wanted to show off something I wasn't capable of doing... hahaha.. My motive was obviously wrong. My "ambition" was interestingly funny. I just keep laughing when i am thinking of that now.. How silly I was. However, it was a good lesson to remember.

Honestly, I don't think I am a person with any musical gifts. and I think My 3 guitar teachers know that for sure too.. haha... Yes, I have had 3 guitar teachers.

The first one was the AMS mini school one. He was a 4th year undergrad playing guitar for about 6 years? He was okay.. but I think the class size was a bit too big for beginners.. we had like 10 people in the 1 and half hour class... with him being the only instructor. so i didn't really learn much from the course. and from the course, the brand new guitar learning experience made me start to be quite conscious about my short fingers... but I know that's not something I can change...besides the size of my hands become my limitation/challenge in playing guitar... The little strength of my hands is another problem... but this is something I can change/improve.

My second guitar teacher was an older man. My aunt showed me his business card. He was a professional musician. She had his contact because he helped tune my cousin's piano before... He knows piano, violin and guitar. He is oftentimes invited to play in various music events. His style tends to be old school and classical... so he taught me the classical pieces such as Romance. mmm I actually like the Romance I played though he alway frowned when listening to me.. haha.. yea I couldn't make it any smoother... my fingers either became hardened or tangled as i played.. I learned from him for a few months in the summer. Then, We ended our guitar lesson when I moved back to UBC. mmm.... I learned some strumming from him too... but no good because I was lazy to practice after work.. I was on coop.

then my third and my current guitar teacher... this guy... MR J.. He's contemporary? He's edgy? He's wild and he's someone I can have good quarrellings with. =p haha... We talk to each other very loudly.. but speaking loud doesn't mean being impolite. haha... yea, Mr J has been my guitar teacher for almost a year? He's a very talented guy as you can tell. He can play Saxophone, Drum, guitar, bass, piano... and he can sing very well. I got to know him through Albert.. cuz he plays for Enoch once in a while. mmm... from him, I picked up various strumming and finger picking patterns.. from him too.. I further realized that my brain is not made for music.. cuz I had a hard time to understand the music theories and memorize the basics i should know... I would also say that I am not making efforts hard enough ... I think I can improve even more if I can fully put myself in it and practise. ! practise and more practise.


I have been mad at myself... why I just can't play "this" well.. sometimes I stopped practice because I was sick of hearing the ugly sounds coming out of my playing... of course, a lot of discouragements.. but there's also encouragements too... and I think I should remind myself of the encouragements... and keep practising...because this is the only way to improve.

I can't be lazy any more laaaa~~~~~~ ahhhhh