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last night on the way home, I did something I have until now never been able to do. I figured out the chords of a song I've never played (well part of it) just by listening to the music.
I was able to visualize which chords they were, and how to play them, and when I got home to try it out, I was almost exactly on, with a couple small exceptions (what I thought was A was Am, etc).
this is huge progress for me, since my brain has never been able to do this very well before for some reason. I recently picked the guitar back up after like 13 yrs of not playing much at all with marriage, moves, kids, etc, but played with a buddy back in April of this year and had so much fun that I jumped back into it and now not only have I caught back up to where I was when I was 25 or so when I was still playing regularly, I have in this past 8 months surpassed my previous skill level and am playing better than ever. TABs being instantly available on the web has really catapulted my forward more than anything else, I've absorbed more in the last 8 months than I think I did in my first 5 years of playing (back in late 80's when you had to go buy TAB books and I could never afford to).
it's fun making leaps in progress like this! [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]
btw, the song was Chemical Wedding by Bruce Dickinson and it was the chorus part I figured out in my head.
I was able to visualize which chords they were, and how to play them, and when I got home to try it out, I was almost exactly on, with a couple small exceptions (what I thought was A was Am, etc).
this is huge progress for me, since my brain has never been able to do this very well before for some reason. I recently picked the guitar back up after like 13 yrs of not playing much at all with marriage, moves, kids, etc, but played with a buddy back in April of this year and had so much fun that I jumped back into it and now not only have I caught back up to where I was when I was 25 or so when I was still playing regularly, I have in this past 8 months surpassed my previous skill level and am playing better than ever. TABs being instantly available on the web has really catapulted my forward more than anything else, I've absorbed more in the last 8 months than I think I did in my first 5 years of playing (back in late 80's when you had to go buy TAB books and I could never afford to).
it's fun making leaps in progress like this! [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]
btw, the song was Chemical Wedding by Bruce Dickinson and it was the chorus part I figured out in my head.
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