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i like singing and i like playing the guitar, but my guitar skills don't allow me to combine the two yet
abstrakt
(Mar 5 05, 20:16)
------------------------------abstrakt,
I used to tell myself the same thing, and used to be terribly frustrated that I was writing lyrics constantly and hearing them in my head, but couldn't do both.
It takes alot of pratice. TONS.
I would literally say that I spent my five years in college also learning how to sing and play guitar at the same time.
It wasn't until moving here to Chicago in 2001 that I ever played/sang in front of anyone. I did play guitar in a band in high school for three years, but never sang.Once you kind of get the hang of it, you learn ways of making the guitar rhythm the right way so you can sing with it. Sometimes straight downstrokes work best.
don't be discouraged, ever. :) I never thought I would figure it out and now it's just second nature. Not trying to toot my horn, but some of my solo songs I've played so many times, I can sit and read the closed-captioning on the tv at the same time. Unfortuatly, it was often on Oprah.