Glacies
March 15th, 2013, 08:34 AM
Hey Guys,
I just thought I'd pop in and say hi. I'm still alive, doing pretty well, but still not settled from the big life move.
My wife finally got a job in the area and she'll be moving in with me, after 6 months of living apart, today. I'm super excited. Unfortunately we haven't sold our home yet so we'll be living in a small apartment while that gets handled.
I've been playing a lot, trying to understand how to solo, getting pretty nasty with some chords and working on my gear. I haven't been playing with a band though and I think I'm losing whatever "mojo" i used to have when I was doing that regularly. I miss it a lot. My guys gave me so much room to learn even though they were better musicians than I am, but they made me feel like I brought something important to the table with my creativity.
As to why I haven't been posting, first because I didn't have internet. I was trying to save a dime while juggling mortgage and rent, and second, I admittedly went into a bit of a depression living alone for so long, feeling like I'm damaging my family by taking a good job and leaving everyone behind. Between that huge tree destroying part of my house and 2 cars, to the miscarriage, to the not-very-graceful transition into the new job, it's just been a lot to deal with. My wife gets mad when I think like that, and she's right, this sets us up for the future, but damn it's been hard and being apart hasn't helped.
Back to cool stuff, I don't know how some of you guys feel about him, but I'm really starting to idolize John Frusciante. I have been struggling to play a lot of his music because it's so technically advanced, but damn, when I get it, it's like a lightbulb goes off and I take it to other stuff. I've learned so much about relative minors through his chordplay when I realized that just because something seemed like it was totally dissimiliar, it still worked.
I am really struggling trying to learn Soul to Squeeze right now, but I'm pushing through, while working through this book at the same time:
http://www.amazon.com/Guitarists-Chords-The-Foundation-Melodic-Soloing/dp/1423483219/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1363357778&sr=8-2&keywords=scales+over+chords
I am still looking to buy a pro level instrument and I'm going to post about it in a minute in the right subforum.
Anyway, I hope all is well with you guys. Any big changes that I missed?
I just thought I'd pop in and say hi. I'm still alive, doing pretty well, but still not settled from the big life move.
My wife finally got a job in the area and she'll be moving in with me, after 6 months of living apart, today. I'm super excited. Unfortunately we haven't sold our home yet so we'll be living in a small apartment while that gets handled.
I've been playing a lot, trying to understand how to solo, getting pretty nasty with some chords and working on my gear. I haven't been playing with a band though and I think I'm losing whatever "mojo" i used to have when I was doing that regularly. I miss it a lot. My guys gave me so much room to learn even though they were better musicians than I am, but they made me feel like I brought something important to the table with my creativity.
As to why I haven't been posting, first because I didn't have internet. I was trying to save a dime while juggling mortgage and rent, and second, I admittedly went into a bit of a depression living alone for so long, feeling like I'm damaging my family by taking a good job and leaving everyone behind. Between that huge tree destroying part of my house and 2 cars, to the miscarriage, to the not-very-graceful transition into the new job, it's just been a lot to deal with. My wife gets mad when I think like that, and she's right, this sets us up for the future, but damn it's been hard and being apart hasn't helped.
Back to cool stuff, I don't know how some of you guys feel about him, but I'm really starting to idolize John Frusciante. I have been struggling to play a lot of his music because it's so technically advanced, but damn, when I get it, it's like a lightbulb goes off and I take it to other stuff. I've learned so much about relative minors through his chordplay when I realized that just because something seemed like it was totally dissimiliar, it still worked.
I am really struggling trying to learn Soul to Squeeze right now, but I'm pushing through, while working through this book at the same time:
http://www.amazon.com/Guitarists-Chords-The-Foundation-Melodic-Soloing/dp/1423483219/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1363357778&sr=8-2&keywords=scales+over+chords
I am still looking to buy a pro level instrument and I'm going to post about it in a minute in the right subforum.
Anyway, I hope all is well with you guys. Any big changes that I missed?