I actually might take lessons. 'Course the guy I want has a waiting list. He's cool, though. Apparently, (I'm getting this through my dad), he'll teach me anything I want to learn, without having to learn the basic scales and such first.
I also already know the basic scales. Or most of them anyway.
lets see, I know the Chromatic, (sort of), C major, the blues scale, (not a basic scale, and sort of, not really), and, and- uh... hmm.
I don't know the basic scales.
But I do know chords! Whoppin'!
Well. I know some chords. Really not very many at all.
So, for the mo, I'm teaching myself from a book. It's called 'How to Play Guitar' by Roger Evans. It seems informative.
My current goal is to play a Norah Jones called Painter. Play and sing it.
Wouldn't it be cool to hang out on an English forum? I have been reading a book called Ptolemy's Gate, by Jonathon Stroud and it's the third and final (crappy ending, by the way) book in the Bartimaes trilogy. So, naturally I wanted to know how to pronounce Ptolemy. Well this is what I got: [ (t
l
-m
)]For the non-dictionary speaking among us, it is, I believe, TOE-leh-me. Not sure though.. I know the P is silent. Yeah, me and my bro were looking up the pronunciation on da internet and when this turned up we were like, and I quote, "Huh? um, yeah, lets try somewhere else.." < yes. our amazing talent for cutting sarcastic comments failed us at such a time of need.
hehe, our English lesson for the day. As though simple normal speech weren't enough, people still feel the need to question us, me mainly, about our learning habits. Apparently everything isn't a good enough teacher. *rolls eyes*
It's truly not that hard to wrap your brain around the fact that yes, I learn from living, rather than eight hours a day of canned 'education'. Deal with it.
*grumbles* some people..
