OK, so the, premise to this is that I had spoken with some friends previously about an Advanced Riders Course and that its something worth doing. One of my friends (Dan) ended up in conversation with my dad on the very same subject and mentioned that he was planning on doing a course of that nature down in South Wales at the Harley Davidson instruction centre – Riders Edge. As it was coming up to my birthday my dad ran the idea past me and of course I jumped at the chance!
Road trip + Advanced course + Harley experience = What’s not to love! Continue reading →
Well, quick post…. we got back from holiday to find a little surprise behind the sofa! Kittens! They weren’t due for a week or so yet, or so we thought! but here they are, one Black one with White flashes, the other one White with patch work … looks just like Fender, their ‘Uncle’! Quick Vid….
Once rainy afternoon in Bollington, we took the nipper swimming and when filling our boots with chocolate afterwards, my wife noticed an add on the notice board in the leisure centre:
“Adult Guitar Class. Play popular songs.
Tuesdays 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. at the Dog & Partridge.
Bollington.
Tel: Mark 07989 600001″
Well I gave Mark a call, and he promptly invited me down to come and watch half a session. Looked like just what I was after.
After learning a series of guitar solos on the electric guitar I found that there was a hole in my skill set! I could learn the tab for playing some awesome solo’s but when it came to stringing them together with some chords to play a complete song I started to struggle!
With this in mind, I started thinking that I should get an acoustic guitar and put in some proper chord work to get me underway.
Well about half way through my lessons I started to understand a lot more around the sounds from a guitar and what I wanted from my guitar. Which then prompted me to look in to buying one for myself and returning my brothers back to him.
After weeks of reading and looking through review web sites about Guitars, their sounds and other characteristics I got to the point where I felt I could ruck up to a Music shop and try some out and try and find one that was right Continue reading →
