Re: Any Guitar Players, ADD is an up hill battle

[Anonymous]

Wow! It’s great that so many of you are enjoying making music.

I am realizing (again) how fortunate I was to grow-up with a piano in my home. It was an old crappy piano but my mom taught me to read music when I was really little — probably before I started school. Piano is a lot easier when you grow-up playing (I’ve been told) because the hands develop into it. I am not sure what that means exactly, but motor memory is powerful and the sooner you start the better.

Ed, I hope you have fun playing. I quit performing when it stopped being fun. Lugging around the equipment stinks. LOL

If you like to sing, you could learn just three chords and play hundreds (I am not kidding) of songs. They may not be your favorite songs but you need to know hundreds if you want to get work in a club. Think about it – you will work from 9 PM until 2 AM. (And then you load the equipment up and go home.) There are a whole lot of opportunities to play — especially for free — if you want to get some experience. Just learn a 20 songs and go volunteer at a nursing home or something. It is a good experience and the folks really appreciate it. I did that for years before I ever got a paying gig. And it’s okay to take out cheat sheets on such occasions. I would type up the lyrics and chords and put my sheets up on a music stand. Eventually I memorized the song. When you’ve played a song about 500 times, it sinks in and you play by rote and nothing (not even a bar fight) will throw you off. It was, for me, a matter of repetition.

Good luck with it and have fun!

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