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New Theme, New WP!

Posted By guapacha on June 11th, 2009

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If you’re reading this in RSS land then you won’t have noticed but the ol’ blog has been upgraded to WP 2.8 (which I doubt you can tell from anywhere) and you won’t have noticed we have an all new theme. It’s not quite finished yet, still need to make updates to the sidebar, add [...]

 

Choosing a Musical Instrument to Learn

Posted By guapacha on October 18th, 2007

I’ve decided to while away my boring weeknights by learning to play an instrument. In school I played the cornet for a short while, I think I could play Oh When The Saints by the end of it, but that’s about it for my musical career. So, the question is – what to play? So far I have it narrowed down to the following:

  1. flamenco guitar – I love flamenco music so it would be cool to be able to play it
  2. banjo – there is some great banjo music and today I heard jazz banjo which was uncanningly awesome, and there is something about the banjo that appeals to my sense of wanting to do something a little different
  3. mandolin – they’re small, sound good and are supposed to be amongst the easiest of the stringed instruments, and my wife really likes it
  4. saxophone – I really wanted a sax when I was a kid and I still do, but the type I want to play is very expensive, tough to learn and just seems impractical.

So I’m going to think about it for a while, but not too long or I will end up doing nothing: I know me somewhat. Maybe we’ll see mandolin.guapacha.com in the near future??

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3 Responses to “Choosing a Musical Instrument to Learn”

Joshua
October 18th, 2007 at 21:21

Get yourself a classy Telecaster like I’ve got. Ladies go crazy for a classy Telecaster, and they’re played by everybody from Conway Twitty to Joe Strummer to Keith Richards himself.

db
October 18th, 2007 at 22:12

Don’t listen to Josh, he has Telecaster on the brain. I totally think you should rock the banjo or mandolin. Sweet instruments both.

guapacha
October 19th, 2007 at 06:06

My boss (who is in a band) says to buy them all! Or I figure I can just use GarageBand and download MIDI files for each, but that doesn’t seem so much fun.

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