Fingertips...

Ouch. I've been thinking about what I want to do with my life (or just my spare time) and so I decided to work on playing guitar again. I relax a lot while playing and just enjoy strumming on it. I wouldn't mind playing with a group of people but I want to learn for myself, at least for now.

So I grabbed a book of chords and my guitar, I tuned it. I had too, Maggie complained it hurt her ears. So taking care of that I played a little over the weekend (when not under the house) and played about an hour last night.

Part of the process of playing guitar is building up the callouses on your hands. It hurts to learn for the short term because your finger tips get cut on the strings while trying to hold them down. It hurts quite a bit, but I am not too worried about it.

I visited a bunch of guitar tab sites too. Guitar tab is a shorthand way of representing how to play a guitar in a specific way. It makes it easy for people learning to play guitar to play songs they may have heard. I grabbed a bunch last night to learn.

Hopefully soon, I'll be good enough to really play something.