Tag: guitar
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What I can do with a guitar
In which I geek out about the various things I can do with a guitar and the things I want to learn to do with a guitar! By the numbers, I actually know more songs and chords than I thought I did!
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In which Anna figures out how to play Au rang d'aimer!
I’ve been spending quite a bit of my musical time on tunes from the Quebecois repertoire, but every so often I get to remind myself that actually, y’know? I also play guitar. Especially when I hear a song like the delicious “Au rang d’aimer” by La Bottine Souriante, which I’ve been swooning over for ages.…
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The entire Victoria trip, part 2: Saturday
This being the writeup + photos post for what Dara and I did in Victoria earlier this month, on Saturday the 5th! Aside from going to see Le Vent du Nord, that is, which of course I covered already. 😀 The previous post of this set, for Friday the 5th, is here!
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Reminder to Jamming group: Jam is ON on Sunday
For those of you on my jamming group’s mailing list, if you haven’t already seen the reminder I sent earlier this week, don’t forget that we are JAMMING on Sunday at the Murkworks! Be there or miss out on seeing my shiny new guitar. Not to mention nomming of tasty, tasty pie! Please sing out…
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More guitar geeking!
So unless a more awesome name presents itself, my shiny new guitar is going to be henceforth known as “General Taylor”. I am, yes, quite cognizant of the irony of naming a guitar for a song performed without any instruments whatsoever. I have also realized that as I was grabbing shinies to go with the…
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Awesome Guitar Acquisition of Awesomeness
Ladies and gentlemen, as promised, today I went with my beloved solarbird to Dusty Strings and got myself a shiny brand new guitar! It took a bit of deciding, especially given that the place was a madhouse (they were having an open house and concert and they were packed wall to wall with people), but…
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Speaking of the guitar pick of awesomeness
There’s a ridiculous amount of fangirly glee I can get out of something as simple as a well-used guitar pick! I am not a professional guitarist by any stretch of the imagination; I’m barely at the level of competent amateur, really, and then only because I can play decent rhythm on a small set of…