Do you want to learn guitar? It’s not as hard as you imagine, even if your age is already not-to-be-disclosed. All you need is a good guitar, a good course and a lot of time and patience. Let me tell you something: when I learn a new song, I usually have to practice at least for two weeks before being as confident as to play it to other people. Let’s take only one example, a song I like very much: You Are Wonderful Tonight, by Eric Clapton. I wanted to learn how to play it on my guitar and I found this video which looked quite helpful. What I liked about the author was that he slowed down with the playing while explaining how he moved from C to D, then to G, this alternation managing to generate that awesome sound. Chords, strumming patterns, fingerpicking, everything is in the demo. Even so, I quickly discovered that I forget what to do with my fingers, so I really had to practice a lot before being able to unconsciously remember all that stuff that makes the song.

Now I can play it almost without mistake. Yes, I still have issues with that part where I need to alternate the 12th and 14th riffs, if you know what I’m talking about. When I’ll master that too, I’ll make a recording and post it here for you.

Do you play guitar? What songs do you play best?