The Guitar Dream

It's long been an ambition of mine to learn to play the guitar. I mean play it properly, not just a few chords. I guess the dream really is to be a rock star, but reality kind of gets in the way of that, so I just want to learn to play the guitar as well as I can.

I've been given a Yamaha G90A to start learning. It was made sometime in the early 70's and still sounds good (the guitar sounds good, although at the moment my playing it doesn't!)



I'm going to start with a book called The Complete Guitar Player by Russ Shipton. It's a book that's been recommended to me. It starts with the very basics like how to hold the guitar and position your hands and fingers, and goes through lots of different songs and styles of music, teaching different chords and techniques of playing as you go through it to make playing sound good without making it too hard.

I'll be posting on here how I'm getting on, and I'll try to stay committed to practising!!