Blues-n-Rock Guitar

Initial Post

Good day! In the coming days I plan to put a great deal of guitar based information up here, specifically focused around Blues and Rock. I've been playing guitar for 34 years now (35 in October!) and that's 34 out 40 years for me.

I started down this road when I was very young - I used to play brooms or anything else that looked like a guitar. I was given a "Roy Rogers" toy guitar and drug it around with me. SO my Grandmother, God bless her, made a deal with my parents. She would get the guitar, my folks would pay for lessons. Well that kicked things off. Thanks to some very good teachers and circumstances, I'm still playing today.

While purchasing school books with my daughter the other day, I noticed a Mel Bay beginners book. I opened it up - don't you know that there was etude #2, Red River Valley and The yellow rose of Texas. I hated those songs. Thankfully, Mike Houlihan and DOn Vicarel, my first teachers, alternated between Mel and The Beatles, making it tolerable.I was playing Day Tripper by 8 the time I was 8.

I'm looking forward to doing a bunch with this blog - let me know what you think! Cheers!

Bluesman

posted by Guitarman @ 8:16 PM