Boy, was that exciting and boring all at once.

I went to this older man for lessons, who had me start on slide guitar because he thought that my fingers were too small to chord. I thought that he was an idiot but he knew what he was doing, so I thought. This was one of those “Royal Conservatory” school of guitar that I was enrolled in. It was a class none the less.

I honestly thought that Mrs. Lord showed me more then this guy ever could! He keep teaching us the dreaded “THEORY” stuff that drove me nutz! I could play everything that he wanted us to play BUT I memorized it all in my head, then went at it. I used the lesson that the Christian Rock Band guitar player told ” start out SLOWLY and the speed will come later”.

This drove buddy over the edge every time. He said ” Chris, why aren’t you looking at your sheet music that I gave you when I played it?” It was at that point that I told him what advice that someone gave me and he said ” I could do that later”. I kept trying to do it his way but I just found it way to hard!

A couple of years ago when I was going to College, they had found out that I had a learning disability, I was dyslexic! I also had a grade 9 mathematics trying to do college physics! They just thought, what the hell is he doing?

Anyways, I wish I knew that then so I could have done something about it at an earlier age.
Music and math is one of the same, so we are told, but every good musician that I ever met was pathetic at math.

I honestly think that it is half math (or just being able to remember patterns better then most, that is where I think I fit in on this) and natural ability.

So after getting totally frustrated, I quit!

Hey, does something like this sound familiar?