1. Instinct
2. Subconscious intelligence (probably the same thing as 1)
3. Messages from fairy
4. Your high E string will snap under your fingers if you don't.
Yesterday I gave myself a blister playing guitar. This has not been an unusual event this summer. But when I sat down to play last night, I went gee, if I want to play this at school this year, I should get the strings changed. They're looking worn out. The steel just seemed cruddy and shredded up a little and there was something about the tension in the string that didn't match the tuning I was hearing. I don't know. But I played last night, double checked the tuning, put it away, bandaged up my thumb, nursed the skin at the edges of my fingers where I hold down the chords.
Today, similar routine. Home from work, dinner, pajamas, guitar. I played through "Swimming to the Other Side" a few times, recorded and critiqued and considered what I needed to work on. I played it again, stumbled over the second verse because I couldn't see all the words and the chords based on the way that the page was positioned. I adjusted and started playing again.
And then my high E string snapped. And that was the end of that.
I am excited about being able to play things well enough for sing alongs this year. Bonnie got me in a groove with it during senior week. I look forward to that particular community created in song. This one came from Tree, but there are so many others that are part of a shared sense of who we are, so many musicians loved by my group of friends that we hold dear. And I want the chance for us to sing them together. I've spent this summer working towards that.
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