Re: Travel Guitar
Loretta,
Careful, when it comes to reading "the dots", guitar will mess you up!
I had my guitar out for the first time in a while the other night to play the cat's favorite song. While it was in my hands I tried reading through a couple of the things I'd been working on before switching to mandolin last summer. Not only was this slow, easy little South American song (albeit in D-minor, not my favorite reading key) impossible to read because I kept reaching for where the notes would be on my mandolin...after 45 minutes I went back to fiddle tunes and couldn't put my fingers on the right frets of the mandolin either.
The first man who whistled
thought he had a wren in his mouth.
He went around all day
with his lips puckered,
afraid to swallow.
--"The First" by Wendell Berry
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