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Day 02


Day two of my guitar lesson was yesterday and I meant to upload this then, but I had spent all night lamenting about how the Ministry of Education has declared a month-long holiday for schools and academies ! Read this in detail in my diary blog: extrovert19.blogspot.com
Yesterday morning I was five minutes late to class. Unlike the previous week, there were two other students in the class. That’s meant that I could hear all three of us strumming, but somehow I had the ability to focus completely on Vincent and nothing else. One of them was a little boy around the age of seven or ten learning the same thing I was. He had a little round white face, thin hair innocently flopping down onto his forehead and his stubby fingers pressing pink onto the steel strings. The other boy in the room was around my age or perhaps a few years older. He had a long-pointed face with a low nose bridge and a thick wild mop of curly hair resting on his head. He played more chords than I did…I think.

Anyways, I got the one two one two strumming right and I moved onto one three one three. I got better at it and undoubtedly, a callus has begun to develop on the index finger on my left hand. Many would have despised the thought, but for me, I would end this journey happy even if it means that I end up with highly unattractive, hard, torn, bruised fingertips. I learned a bit of theory too. I learned the notes on the lines and the spaces. I listened to him enthusiastically even though I had already learned them when I learned keyboard. He taught me everything and realized that he forgot to tell me what a “staff” was. LOL. His emotions, reactions, expressions and actions basically make him the personification of a meme. He is a living meme.

That hour came to an end reaaaaaaaaal fast! And there you have it. My second guitar lesson.

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