Fucking hell.

I have been looking forward to playing the guitar for at least 3 weeks. Now I've finally got one, and I have this sense of dread that I can't play it or make the commitment to noodling with it every day for at least an hour. This gets me all depressed. When I try talking to mdlbear about it, he tells me to stick with it, learn some filk & learn classical, see if I should continue with it by the end of the quarter. He tells me all these things about the chords and shit like that I am not willing to comprehend because of my level of discouragement/depression.

I manage to go upstairs & noodle a bit, breaking open the book & reading the first set of excercises, notes on the 1st string. E, F, & G aren't that hard. It's when I got to 6 that I started having problems. B, C, D + E, F, G = difficult time with music. Scribbled letters underneath the notes on excercise 6, still don't think I can pull it off. Haven't gotten past that one well enough to try moving onto 7 yet, but from what I did see of the first actual song in the book, they want us to at least have those 6 notes down. I can't read music notation to save my ass, much less anything else. It's a fucking nightmare for me to try and understand this shit because I don't understand it! I can't even get past the 6th excercise, so how in the bloody fucking hell am I supposed to stay with this until the end of the quarter?!?

Just a thought.......mabey it's not my insturment after all........

Triumph...sorta

Still hate that chapter of the book. Still wish it would be simple. But! I mananged to play a tune tonight!!! The Banks Of The Ohio (Trad) was apparently the first song in there. Haven't gotten much farther than that, though. If I try learning G & A before next week, my brain might explode.