{"id":19894,"date":"2018-05-30T18:55:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T23:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19894"},"modified":"2018-05-30T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T23:55:32","slug":"how-are-the-guitar-lessons-coming-brian-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/30\/how-are-the-guitar-lessons-coming-brian-j\/","title":{"rendered":"How Are The Guitar Lessons Coming, Brian J.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/25\/say-hello-to-my-little-friend\/\" target=\"_new\">I bought a guitar<\/a>, and I tried to teach myself to play from YouTube videos and books.  Which went about as well as I expected, so I enrolled in some lessons.<\/p>\n<p>So for about two months now, I&#8217;ve been spending a half hour on Monday afternoons with an instructor and varying amounts of time on other days picking simple and sometimes coherent notes.<\/p>\n<p>But the guitar instructor has been playing for decades, and his lessons are full of musical words I don&#8217;t know since this is just about my first music experience (aside from listening to it really loud).  He would talk about <em>chords<\/em>, <em>progressions<\/em>, <em>pentatonic scales<\/em>, <em>chromatic<\/em>, and stuff, and I have no idea what he&#8217;s talking about.  It sounds important, so I hope I&#8217;ll learn about it later once I&#8217;m done learning where to put my fingers at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>But he did mention one word I do understand:  <em>staff<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/musicalstaff.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Awww, yeah.  I know all about the staff.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, we&#8217;ll get to musical tonfa and musical escrima sticks soon, but probably not.  They&#8217;re more per concussion instruments, as I&#8217;ve learned in my martial arts studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I mentioned I bought a guitar, and I tried to teach myself to play from YouTube videos and books. Which went about as well as I expected, so I enrolled in some lessons. So for about two months now, I&#8217;ve been spending a half hour on Monday afternoons with an instructor and varying amounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19895,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19894\/revisions\/19895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}