hey you lot, I need help. I've been playing my guitar, but I'm not very good at it. No really, I'm not. And whenever I tell my guitar playing friends about it, they give me the same piece of golden advice: Learn to play your favourite song. Well, you know, I try. But I'm not very good at it, so I end up making up my own wee ditties, cos I get so frustrated. Time and time again, they sit there, and then if I'm telling them about my frustrations, they draw closer to me, as if they're about to tell me this wonderful undiscovered secret of guitar playing that nobody has ever told me before. And every time, I get vaguely excited, hoping that they are going to tell me something new. But they don't. They tell me the golden advice. So I try. how I try. But I really only end up making a total hatchet job of any song thats ever been composed. Seriously, I'm not kidding. I can make Isobel Campbell into a frankenstein elvis monster. You think I'm exagerating? nope. Family tree has the same tabs as Amazing Grace. Its a recipe for disaster. My boyfriend and I had a quarrel regarding this a wee while ago. He asked in the end, if I thought anybody found it easy to learn to play guitar. Of course they didn't. But in the light of things at the time, I wasn't going to admit to it, cos I was feeling extremely upset and unhappy about the whole situation, and was really considering selling my guitars, which broke my heart to think about. Plus, I was in a sulk, and I hate admitting anyone else is right, if I'm in a sulk. And sometimes I get really disheartened about the whole thing. It frustrates the hell out of me. Especially when I realise that I'm making Family Tree sound like Leavin' On a Jet Plane (also has similar tabs. Or is it Blowin' in the wind? Oh, I dunno- I play them all the same anyway. And I don't know how not to.) So what do I want? Well, someone to actually teach me properly would be a start. Someone to teach me who lives in the Glasgow/ Edinburgh area. Face to face. And I'll see about coughing up* some cash for your time/ energy/ patience/ as a bribe to stop you bitching about me to everyone on sinister. (*my lungs are like the royal mint. Every time I get flu ten pound notes come flying out my wind pipes. Thats not true. But its such a silly phrase I think.) Someone who has the patience of a saint and knows their way around a fretboard and whatnot. Someone who likes a challenge. I was thinking earlier in the year about getting lessons when I came back to Scotland, but you know,I think its important to meet someone who'll teach me and who is nice and someone I can trust to be gentle with me. Anyway, I'd really appreciate it if anyone thinks they can help me. And please, save the speil about "learn how to play your favourite songs". Cos thats the bit I'm having trouble with. Ha! I'm stumbling with the easy bit! ***************************************************** FOR THE HARDCORE SINISTERIANS you know that www.another.com have the e mail domains of most of the B+S crew? so you can get ilovestewart.co.uk Unfortunately, no Ilovehoney.co.uk, ilovekenchu.co.uk, ilovemick.co.uk or iloveisobel.co.uk i wasn't looking to find one for me.. honest to god. I was actually browisng for isolation.co.uk... yeah yeah, you believe me... bet you wore bros t shirts when you were little. okay, enough from me for the second time today, love idles *waiting for your call* *still waiting...* *drums her fingers while she waits* *takes up knitting* *realises idles needs knitting lessons* *says "to hell with it" and settles for watching Cartoon Network instead.* ===== http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/corduroysmoke and the world did get covered in a thick haze of corduroy smoke. And it felt good. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+