Wednesday, July 4, 2007 @7/04/2007 10:35:00 PM
Haven't been blogging for the past 3 weeks to a month.
Back in school, back to the hustle and bustle of homeworks, CCA , long hours of lessons, ETC.
Also this term, i was given a chance to learn the Guitar. The instrument I've always wanted to learn. As you would see the main pictures of my Blog, Guitar and violin are the instruments of my life. Ok shan't talk too much nonsense. I'll jump straight to the course detail.
This guitar course, conducted by J2 students from AJC (Anderson Junior college), was a three session course which will equip us with the beginner adequate skills to play a song. Today was the first lesson. I went with the closes people i have in school. Mys God-sister Evelyn, Fariz, Ariffin and my classmate David.
At first the lesson was made a little lame. The J2 seem to be out of ideas to use. We played "wacko" . I've been playing this game ever since i step into my school. During NCC especially. Anyway main part of the course was to learn how to play the guitar. Soon after the game, we got to business. the instructors started to "choose" us. Within the nest 10 minutes, we were sited with a guitar each to practice with.
First we were taught the difference between a classical Guitar and an acoustic one. The main differences were the type of strings it uses and the fretboard size. Than i came to realized that my own guitar was an acoustic one.
Next was a theory lesson, to me this was the most important part because since i started to learn the violin i did not learn any theory at all. i was note blind. So this time round i must make it appoint to learn up the theory for guitars.
After theory, it was Jamming time. We started to pluck the strings. From the low E string to the high E string. Using all the finger except our pinky to pluck.
All in all the course was fun and very educational. I learn quite a lot of things on the guitar.
My only regret was not bringing my own guitar. I must bring my next week!!!
Guitar Rules!!!!!!!!
Flying off
Shawn Koh Z.K
That Guitar Strummed again
The Violin got mysteriously bowed