Restringing the Guitar
I cannot start anything until I restring the guitar. The E string (the bottom one) was broken and I just decided to replace them all.
So I stopped by a local music store and said, “I need new strings for an acoustic guitar, steel please.” I immediately admitted that I’m a beginner and he asked about my callouses on my finger tips, and whether I had any. “Baby’s bottom,” I said.
So he went straight for what I can only assume was the wimpiest strings there is and handed them to me. “These are great strings, nice and soft.”
Once I got home, I looked online for a tutorial on how to restring a guitar. There were some pretty specific instructions, but it wasn’t that complicated. I managed to do it entirely during an hour-long conference call. The one bit of advice that I didn’t realize until it was too late was replace one string at a time. Taking all the strings off a guitar is risky as there is so much pressure on the guitar when strung, it might warp when completely un-strung.
Too late for that! Though I don’t think there was any harm done.
The Learn & Master Guitar Package
Today I opened up the Learn & Master Guitar package. Here’s a look at what’s inside…
A booklet, about 20 DVDs and some CDs with music to jam to. Flipping through the booklet, I realize that it is realistically going to take a year to go through this. I guess I can’t expect to master the guitar in any less time than that!
Lesson 1
So of course I cannot wait and I pop in the CD and follow along on lesson 1 with Steve Krentz from Nashville, TN (if you’re going to learn guitar from someone, they might as well be from Nashville.) I’ll save details for my next post, especially since I couldn’t even get through it. Let’s just say that there is nothing soft about these new strings!
Ouch! My fingertips are screaming.
