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Originally posted by Taurisk: ↑

@Sweetsound - I do know about the complexity of playing an instrument well. Those guys in the mountain huts of Austria, where there is/ maybe 'was'? always a guitar hanging on a wall - probably just knew a few basic chords and made up with 'personality' what they lacked in skill, I know my husband did just that. Years later, after he had tried his hand at many workman's skills (and his day job was behind a desk, supervising and solving the technical problems of a large wheat-handling organisation)- I bought him a guitar, because the first one had disappeared (kids!) - he tried a few chords and gave up, he no longer remembered or lacked the enthusiasm, I then, also tried to learn a few chords and decided 'piano' was so much easier and logical!
So: not for me - maybe for now: a bit of singing along to my new toy; a 'keytar' - but have office work to occupy me for at least as month, right now.
I recently met a formerly religious couple where both husband and wife often played and sang together - lady had a sweet voice, but the husband's chords still weren't always right, despite, what I must assume, were years of practice, everyone in the smasll audience was still encouraging, of course. Music, making music is a wonderful thing, never mind achieving perfection.
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Many years ago and after already some lessons, there was a chap I knew who played and 'taught' guitar and asked him whether he'd teach me (he was cheaper than the teacher I already had). After just a couple of 'lessons', this alternate teacher said to me 'you know more than I do' - so of course end of 'lessons'.

It turned out that my 'existing' teacher taught well and I was a reasonable reader of notation - many guitar players are notoriously bad at reading - many rely on 'ear' and even many teachers use what is known as tabulature (or tabs).

There are some things unique to the guitar - like 'D' tuning the bass E string and there are also alternate tunings for other open strings - just to make guitar complexities ever more complex. Then there is the capo which when used instantly changes key as it reduces the overall length of all strings at once thus raising each strings pitch concurrently. Fun and games for those so inclined.

Even the following interview from 1983 highlights the lack of reading skills of accomplished guitar performers such as Leo - self taught and learnt to read decades after playing - and playing he does so well - he apparently was even 'subjected' to learning to play the violin - obviously the guitar won:

One comment from after another video of Mr. Kottke's:

Saw Mr. Kottte in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1974, drove 48 miles in a blizzard, took us 2 1/2 hours. He walked out on stage and looked at the 350 of us that showed up out of a sold out 8,000 seat auditorium and said "Hell, I guess you guys are fans."

He set down on the edge of the stage and said I will play any request you have since it's just us. Played for 2 hours plus, shook every single persons hand that was there. What a guy. What a guitar player. What a Human.

Must have been some performance for the attendees.

As for the song in the video above - sure looks easy playing - I'll have it down pat by 2morrow - well, maybe the day after or by next week or??