I'm a lefty and I played right handed guitar growing up. I never got very good at strumming and picking. Five years ago I switched to left-handed guitars and I think I'm much better than I ever was as a righty. Picking the strings well, to me, is the most difficult part of playing a guitar.
I've been practicing guitar pretty hard for 4 years. Certainly not 8 hours a day since I have a job and wife, but at least 1 or 2 every day. I feel like maybe I'm not practicing the right things.
When you were playing guitar 8 hours a day, do you remember what you were doing for those 8 hours? Learning new songs? Practicing scales? Transcribing songs? I know all those things are important, but I'm still trying to figure out what I should really be spending my practice time doing.
I think my goal is just to be able to play with friends for fun, no gigs or anything like that, and sound decent, rhythm or lead. And maybe write a few songs.
At my height of playing, I was between ages 14 - 20, so basically from Jr. HS to college. I had all the time in the world, and was really obsessed with the instrument.
I played in multiple bands, so a ton of my spare time would go toward that. Writing and playing songs, basically living in the rehearsal space. When it came to practice it was mostly learning/playing scales, modes, chords, rhythm, etc. - and of course trying to play more and more difficult (cover) songs, as well as trying to write stuff. I spent a huge amount of time just writing stuff in guitar pro (software), and later composing stuff via MIDI in DAWs (Cubase at the time).
My main tips would be to use a metronome at all times, learn as much music theory as you can, learn to sight read, and just have fun by challenging yourself with music. Finding someone to play with is, IMO, priceless.
Yeah last played is a good one. I actually have a smart list of all the top played songs that were last played over a year or two a go, which I look through to find some "fell through the cracks" things I enjoyed at one point.
What I most want is a way to count the plays that happened between a set of dates...
Neat. I note both of these queries could be done via my UI easily, but sharing the results would be impossible without sharing your entire history too.
I'm firmly in the 'gear' quadrant of beer brewing. I build a really cool automatic brewery (wrote my own software, welded a 3 tier frame, had a stainless insulated mash tun welded for me (my welding skills are not good enough for that)). All I have to do is add the grains and hops and suck the wort out with a march pump at the end. Everything else is automatic.
I haven't used it in 4 years. I think I just enjoyed building it more than I enjoy using it.
I think people get scared and then panic. Not many folks are used to being around a person who is bleeding from a stab wound.
I was walking home through a park and saw a girl who was slumped over and it looked like she was dead. My heart started pounding, for some reason it scared me pretty badly. I went and found the police and they refused to even believe me. I then found another homeless person and asked her to check (part of the reason I didn't want to go near is that I'm a male).
I just realized it’s really easy to upvote a comment accidentally while scrolling on my phone with my left thumb (I’m a lefty). But what the heck, I like that joke.
You should have been here before the "unvote/undown" links (which, BTW, might be what you're looking for: it's on the same line as the comment header). "Apologies for the downvote, on mobile", "why isn't there undo for votes?", etc. A lot like discussions when a paywalled article comes up. :-)
The ones I still hear despite knowing the correct lyrics are the first itemized one in the bullet list in that article, "there's a bathroom on the right".
My personal favorite one though is "I want to rock and roll all night, and part of every day" (instead of "party every day"), mostly because unlike most mondegreens it sort of works, but changes this confident declaration of desire into a bizarrely flaccid one. (Listening directly to the audio in a pristine listening environment like I'm in now I don't hear this, but in a normal day-to-day environment with other life happening I can still hear this.)
