Playing the guitar

[Triple-o]

Anyone can play the guitar. Play the 5th string open, then the fourth string open, then the open 5th string again followed by the open  6th string open. WOW! you just played a I IV V progression. Congratulations, in about 60 seconds you just learned to play the guitar.

Now I know why they say anyone can play the guitar. 😁That’s about how the Great Courses start their guitar course. It’s about an 8 hour course of  instruction with about 4 hours of story telling. It’s on sale now for $35 dollars.

I watched the entire course and it’s not bad. Wirth  a lot more than than sale price, but perhaps not worth the regular price of $ 269.95 dollars. It is presented different than the learn and master course.A lot of fingerstyle playing.I found it informative and enjoyable to watch.

I’ve been wanting to change the way I hold the guitar, but I thought after all these years  it would be difficult to change. Following along this course for 8 hours  I managed to switch to a classical guitar position and now it feels a lot better to play.

Assuming you have Amazon Prime Video you can watch the course free, providing you do it with-in the 7 day free trial period given by  the Great Courses Signature Channel.

Now that I can play the guitar I guess I’ll watch another one of their courses “Death, Dying and the Afterlife”. Perhaps it will answer that age old question. Can I take my guitars with me or will the “ Grim Reaper” with its mighty scythe,  just mow them down, like blades of grass? Since, it’s assumed that psychopomps have only one task, guiding the soul to the afterlife with no guitars...😇

Edited December 13, 2019 by Triple-o