"Why Didn't I Think of That" Part 2...

In the last post I mentioned that I started playing guitar again. History lesson, I've owned an acoustic guitar for about 15 years but I never learned anything more than the intro to "Wanted Dead or Live". Also I was a drummer in a rock band in high school, but always regretted not pushing harder to be the guitar player. So about a month ago, I decided that it's not too late and bought a used Mexican Fender Strat off eBay and dedicated myself to open my heart and mind to "Purple Haze". Status Report is that I'm pleased with my progress.

So, I was looking at the music books in B&N when I stumbled across the book Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More Than You Love Me by Will Hodgkinson. This book chronicles the tale of Will's journey to play the sixties folk song "Anji" in front of a live audience. At 34, Will picks up the guitar for the first time and sets a goal to play in front of a live audience in 6 months. Will's journey takes him to interesting places from London to Florida to the Crossroads of Mississippi to New Orleans to New York as he searches out lessons from his favorite guitar players from Les Paul to Roger McGuinn of the Byrds to the 80 year old bluesman T-Model Ford.

As a wannabe writer, why didn't I think of this?

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Why Didn't I Think of That...

From the "Why Didn't I Think of That" File, I present to you the website "Jamplay.com". I final decided to practice my guitar a bit more and found JamPlay.Com for online Guitar Lessons. The interface is slick, they have 5 teachers of different genres, they offer "social networking" for their students, you can ask questions to the teachers, plus they've smoothly integrated affiliate sales of musically instruments and accessories from zzzsounds. This is good stuff.

Tools for Creativity #1...

Target Rocks! Just picked up 4 Star Wars notepads on sale for 2 bucks. I keep one in my car (yoda), one in my computer bag (darth vader), one next to the bed (anakin), and the other is an extra (obe won). So far my most used notepad is my yoda (car), and most notes are for future blog posts as well as to-do lists, but also have some ideas for future "projects". More to come... Tip #1a Also bought power bars for my computer bag. Can't be creative without protien.