Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Latest craze .....Guitar


It all started with my roomie having this guitar-craze went ahead and bought a guitar for himself. We started playing lead music of many favorite songs in that off tuned guitar. It went on fine for some time. Then my rommie found out a guitar teacher who came hardly for three classes and almost everything scraped.
After one month, I got a mail from my HR team asking
“Don’t you want to play your favorite tune in guitar?
Join in for a four-month guitar class in our company premises”

It was a welcome sign when I already have a guitar at home. So I started going for guitar class. But I had to sort out things. First to get a proper cover for the guitar as the earlier cover was too bad to carry around. When I started playing it with the basics of music, I realized the strings are rusted and it might break any moment. It did not took too long before the strings gave away. I cleaned guitar, corrected the bend fret board, new strings, new stricker …..Everything in place!



Then came another challnge, to play the basic minor and major chords notes, to move from C to D properly, u need a lot of practice. Some how the interest in me kept me going even when my finger tips where bulged up, wasted a lot of time trying to figure out the rite chords etc….Then came the second huddle, my roomie with guitar got a transfer to Bangalore. I was in the heights of practicing guitar. It made me to buy my own guitar. I cannot believe my ears when I told it to myself for the first time. Then I realized it is a need and I bought my own guitar. That was cool and I started tuning it, playing it. Every day I would play at least 10 minutes with some of the favorite tunes in mind, even when what ever I play hardly resembles any of them, still I love to play guitar ;)

After three months of effort I was able to play the rhythm for one of my favorite song ‘welcome to the Hotel California: - Eagles’ I realized that the three months effort did not go in vain. Then the guitar-class frequency came down as the weather was pouring down on us and managing guitar in bike on a rainy day was not easy. The classes went off but I still keep practicing, playing & tuning my guitar. But now the craze is slowly going off as mind tends to move towards emptiness…. Let’s see where it takes me next time
but i am really glad that if you hum a misc i can reply some thing similar to it, mind me, its scale, tone and rythm might be differnt but there will be similarity in music. I'm happy that i was able to achive at least this much. God knows where i will end up