I will definitely put that on my list, unfortunately I'm hardly ever in those areas.... I wish I could play the guitar, such a cool thing.
i am not tone deaf, but i am close to it, and it angers me that people who are not me can do things so easily. but i still try and have a couple great guitars and i just bought a new amp and cabinet to rock out with. i dunno if i will buy lessons of some sort or maybe find a youtube series to help me out. i have taken lessons before, many years ago, but like i said, i struggle for lack of talent. i am good at other things.
Maybe it is like some people I have known. They can see the disasters about to hit everyone else, but cannot see the evil right in front of themselves. The chicks with emotionally abusive husbands. The guys with cunt wives. Everyone tries to warn them about their own impending doom, but they are too close to see it. So on that note, maybe we will get lucky and the Mayans will be right.
I was thinking the same. When I first heard about the Mayan calender supposedly running out, recall the date as December 12. As of a month or two ago December 21 is the new final day. It will come and pass and then someone will reevaluate it and come up with a new date.
It has always been December 21, 2012. The Mayans had many different calendars that were all inter-related. I think they were also advanced in tracking movement of the stars. It is likely that the date 12/21/12 is simply the end of one of their "long" calendar cycles, ending on the Winter Solstice.
I've never played guitar or drums much at all. My middle school offered piano as one of the daily classes (i.e. instead of band/chorus/etc.) which forced me to learn all of the theory and reading music. I'm hoping that one (or both) of my kids will want to learn guitar soon and I can take lessons with them. Drums seem like they would be fun to play but the equipment side of it is too bulky (like a piano). Also, I'm hoping to learn more about ways to record with drum machines. Some of my friends that are real musicians have said they would spend a few hours to show me the basics.
I stick with singing. A mic, a chord, a mic stand, and I am ready! My 13 year old son wanted guitar lessons and after talking with several guitarist friends, they recommended starting with the acoustic and a video lesson. Then get an instructor for a year and then go from there. I got a cheap electric combo kit (comes with a tiny amp) for my boy and he is doing fine. I would not go overboard with electric gizmos and amps until you can play along with AC/DC. He is almost there so I will look into a simple foot pedal system that will allow him to experiment with sounds.
