About
Hello! My name is Chris and I’m a mid-30s guy who’s decided to take up the guitar and record my journey to becoming a true guitar hero.
In real life, I’m a writer and a couple years ago, I received a book contract. As a reward, I bought myself an electric guitar and received an amp for my birthday. A couple months later, an acoustic showed up online for under $30 shipped, so I grabbed that, too.
For about 6 months, I self-taught myself to play via the Guitar From Scratch book and the Getting Started on Electric Guitar DVD. All was going well, but then I decided to get my Masters in Writing and my new love had to be put on hold.
Two years passed and I picked up my guitar only on occasion (usually the acoustic since it was always handy). I just tried to remember the chords I had learned during those first 6 months: G, C, D, A, E and F. At once point, I had three half-hour lessons with a real person at a guitar school, which was fun, but nothing I could continue due to my workload. The best thing I did was learn the basics of the fretboard layout in the Fretboard Workbook—all knowledge I retained while not playing much.
Now, here I am two years later, proud to have my degree, but ready to have a life again! So I’m self-learning guitar once more. So far it has been like riding a bike—all I learned in those first 6 monhs has come right back to me. Now it’s time to get rid of the training wheels.
I think the best thing I can do is record my journey as I enjoy it. This tumblog will record my progress, reviews of the material I use, pointers I pick up, links to my favorite guitar music, favorite guitar pictures, links to great guitar and music stories and more.
I hope you join me on my journey. I could use the encouragement!