I asked my wife of 10+ years of she could go get some strings for my wife’s classical guitar today, because I wanted to start paying again after a long depression. I’ve finally got some of my artistic side back.

Set the new strings and started playing. I couldn’t remember much from 25 years, but after a little while, my wife asked “How long did you play?”, because I was better than she thought I would be. Maybe because she’s never heard me play. Don’t get me wrong, I fucking suck balls, but I do remember some tabs. Hopefully, I’ll get better and not give up.

  • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    this week marks the first time my drum kit (and specifically my double pedal hardware) has been assembled (and all on the same property) in 20 years!!!

  • redlemace@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I bought a (used) guitar years ago and finally took a few lessons some months. I can hit a few chords, no complete songs (yet) and learned that over 60 maybe isn’t the best time to start (My fingers just won’t get up to speed or my brain is slower or the two of them have some plot going.) Anyhow, It’s like my welding. I’m no good at it. Sometimes I succeed. However, i’m having so much fun doing it that I keep on doing it.

  • ashenone@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Same brother, 2 months ago I picked up a pawn shop guitar after 15 years of not playing. It feels good to suck cause at least I’m trying. Keep it up that creative outlet is good for you

    • P1nkman@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      That’s great to hear! Yeah, creativity is good, but I sucks ass when depression hits you straight in the face, and all (and I mean fucking ALL) of my artistic side went straight out the window. I’m very happy I got some of it back, just hope my other hobbies also get back on track.

  • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Congrats on picking back up your old skill and finding some joy in it brother! I’ve been trying to learn how to play for around 30 years or so and never even got smoke on the water, just keep on strumming man!

    • P1nkman@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      Thanks! I continued today, and I can already remember more! This is fun, even though my fingers hurt a bit lol

  • Golfnbrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    4 days ago

    I picked up mine, and hung it back on the wall. To collect dust again, next to the ukelele. Wish I had made myself learn music.

    • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I found that rather than ‘learning music’, it’s more fun and engaging to learn songs. When it’s fun, you’re more likely to stick with it than learning scales or whatever. You can do that later if you want.

      Grab that Uke. Get the Uchord app. Go to Ultimate-Guitar.com (you can switch between guitar and uke tabs), pick a song you know and like, play the track in the background and practice playing the chords. Pause when you encounter a tricky chord change, stop the track and practice going back and forth between those two chords until it’s fluent. Continue and repeat until you can play the whole song without the background music. Note UG will show you chord patterns, but Uchord will show you all the inversions as well. Sometimes a different inversion makes for an easier chord change.

      Each time you learn a new song, the next one gets easier and faster to learn.

      That’s how I did it, anyway, when I picked up ukulele as an aging adult.

      Hope that gives you a bit of inspiration to try.

      • Golfnbrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Laughing at “aging adult” . I’m retired. Very very close to 70. Thanks for the suggestions! Will do!

        • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          3 days ago

          I don’t know where you’re located, but around here there’s monthly ukulele meetups where they meet at a sports club or RSL and have a sing/play along, and sometimes offer beginners courses. They’re pretty popular with retirees especially. They’re a good night out.

          https://www.brisbaneukulele.com/

    • eta@feddit.orgEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I started learning about a month ago having never played any instrument. There is no way around practicing. Luckily even with this little time I already see improvements. It’s far from great but I can see getting there of I keep at it. I’d say take it down from the wall and do a little bit each day. You’ll be surprised how far you can get in only a few weeks time.

      Edit: for me it helped going straight to practising whole songs. I’ll probably get to the technical basics some time in the future but right now I stay with songs that come to my mind and sound like they should not be too hard to learn.

  • homik@slrpnk.net
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    4 days ago

    My nylon has been out of use a while since I decided to try fixing the top finish a bit. Did the final polish last night and I guess it’s time to put some strings on again.

    Keep on playing.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Excellent. Classical is fantastic for the string’s forgiveness - steel-string acoustics are like playing a cheese grater if you don’t already have the calluses.