Partly peer influence and partly sheer love for the sweet sound of the instrument, I unloaded roughly RM600 (about S$300) into a beautiful honey brown Ibanez acoustic guitar when I was still a weeny teen. Nearly twenty years later, my musical prowess is still limited to the first half of Romance D'Amour and a simplified version of Eric Clapton's Signe (from his Unplugged album). And my guitar is currently in the better hands of Guitar Freak. I appreciate the efforts that he and Tech Freak put into whipping me into shape during all those hot, lazy weekend afternoons, but I think it would have been more fruitful if said whipping was more literal than figurative.
Yeah, my guitar-ing sucks (I couldn't even strum properly), but imagine the horror on Tech and Guitar Freak's when I completed Guitar Hero's Crossroads (ironically, another E.C. gem) and (Stevie Ray Vaughan's) Texas Flood on Medium setting before they did, and hardly broke a sweat doing it. They were astonished that I jammed my way through the solos with little difficulty, which they once claimed were impossible. To be fair, compared to the real thing, Guitar Hero is far less complex and easier to play. And it takes some getting used to for people like my two buddies so accustomed to plucking strings instead of nudging buttons. At the end of the day, it still doesn't mean dick, because it's not like you will become a better guitarist after several sessions of GH. I'm still as inept as ever, while my buds continue to make chicks wet playing their instruments of love.
Yeah, my guitar-ing sucks (I couldn't even strum properly), but imagine the horror on Tech and Guitar Freak's when I completed Guitar Hero's Crossroads (ironically, another E.C. gem) and (Stevie Ray Vaughan's) Texas Flood on Medium setting before they did, and hardly broke a sweat doing it. They were astonished that I jammed my way through the solos with little difficulty, which they once claimed were impossible. To be fair, compared to the real thing, Guitar Hero is far less complex and easier to play. And it takes some getting used to for people like my two buddies so accustomed to plucking strings instead of nudging buttons. At the end of the day, it still doesn't mean dick, because it's not like you will become a better guitarist after several sessions of GH. I'm still as inept as ever, while my buds continue to make chicks wet playing their instruments of love.
Well, at least I still have the picture of their horrified faces in memory. ;)
