{"id":1271,"date":"2012-08-05T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T19:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2012-08-05T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T19:47:20","slug":"advice-for-guitarists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"Advice for guitarists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/guitar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/lammy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Learn to play a song. Doesn&#8217;t have to be tricky, doesn&#8217;t have to be long &#8212; but everybody can play riffs and call themselves a guitarist. Playing songs is what makes you a musician. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Learn to play a song your parents know and would like to hear. They will be proud of you.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Learn to tune without an electronic tuner. Armed with one reference note and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/video_4465609_harmonic-guitar-tuning-method.html\" target=\"_blank\">harmonics<\/a>, most strummers will never need anything else ever again.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">How you get that one reference note: Buy multiple A440 tuning forks. They are cheap. Keep one in your guitar case, one on your desk\/home music area, and if you carry a bag with you every day, keep one there too.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Skill and talent mean more than your gear &#8212; but don&#8217;t buy crap. If it&#8217;s cheap, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/guitar\/basses\/200x-ibanez-mikro-gsrm20-bass\/\" target=\"_blank\">almost<\/a> always a reason, and that reason often becomes an excuse for not playing. If you do not enjoy interacting with your instrument &#8212; it&#8217;s not comfortable, it doesn&#8217;t stay in tune, it doesn&#8217;t reflect who you are &#8212; you will not play it. Save more, spend more, buy quality, and get what you really want. Your playing will benefit.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">Don&#8217;t end your practice on a bad experience. If you are trying to learn something and you are sucking, end your session with something you are good at playing. Don&#8217;t walk away angry or frustrated or you won&#8217;t want to come back.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn to play a song. Doesn&#8217;t have to be tricky, doesn&#8217;t have to be long &#8212; but everybody can play riffs and call themselves a guitarist. Playing songs is what makes you a musician. \u00a0 Learn to play a song &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=1271\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}