drewan | Mar. 15th, 2007

Tuesday night, as I was going to bed I grabbed the Richfield/Bloomington Community Education schedule. I browsed through it and found two classes that I'm interested in taking. The first one was Level 1 American Sign Language. The second was Learning to Play the Guitar for Beginners.

As I was driving home from a meeting last night (for the promotional committee for the Leather Leadership Conference coming up here in April), I was thinking about the two guitars that we have. One was passed down to me from my Dad, though I don't remember him ever playing it. It probably comes from his days as the campus minister at Mississippi State in the late 60's to early 70's. The second guitar was part of the pile of junk left behind from a renter in my parents old mobile home park that they owned in the late 80's. He just abandoned his trailer and all the stuff inside. My parents pulled it off to the side, and after waiting the required year, the stuff inside was up for grabs. I'm not sure how good either guitar is, but they don't suck.

So after I got home I unburied the guitars, which were in the back of the garage behind a pile of stuff thrown there in November when we closed on the old house sale. I brought them both inside, and took a look at them. They seem to be in pretty good shape, but were severely out of tune. I grabbed the one that I think was my Dad's, and went up to my PC to Google "How to tune a guitar." I went through a couple sites that tried to tell me how to tune it, but I eventually just tuned it by ear from one site that played each string.

Then I found a nice article on beginning guitar playing on ask.com that showed me how to play the scales, G cord, and C cord. I think this was a pretty good start. I'm going to try and keep practicing and see how it goes. I'll never be a