{"id":4646,"date":"2017-07-25T17:42:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2017-07-25T17:42:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T00:42:35","slug":"patience-little-sister-at-sea-07232017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=4646","title":{"rendered":"Patience, Little Sister \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [07\/23\/2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Patience little sister, patience, little brother\u2026it\u2019s gonna take some time<\/em><\/p>\n

Learning a new instrument is\u2026kind of like learning a new language. No, scratch that, it\u2019s exactly<\/em> like learning a new language. And I perhaps know\u2026two verbs. Maybe less.<\/p>\n

But here I am, for only the second time in my artistic life, chopping my fingernails down to only finger length (bye bye to my natural almost-french-tips\u2026the last time I did that was for my piano teacher when I was in my twenties, to prove to her that I was focused enough to come back to lessons), and wincing slightly as I am sure that by the time this is over, my fingers are going to bleed\u2026<\/p>\n

But I am truly determined to learn this\u2026<\/p>\n

So this afternoon \u2013 being as how I have considerably more time than usual on my hands right now \u2013 Amras sat me down on the edge of the bed, handed me his telecaster and helped me loop the strap around my shoulder.<\/p>\n

Okay, so\u2026how do we tune this.<\/em><\/p>\n

And so it starts.<\/p>\n

My fingers hurt (a lot, though I suspect not as badly as they will in days to come), but I can at least now play a chromatic scale. I won\u2019t be breaking out into Chuck Berry riffs any time soon, but I have to walk before I can run (this is not easy for me, I\u2019ve never been a particularly patient person).<\/p>\n

So here we go\u2026at least I can climb my way up and down a scale (slowly, and not with any kind of grace, but hey)\u2026<\/p>\n

Okay guitar: remember our deal, you don\u2019t break my fingers, I learn to treat you right. Okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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