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Nope. Can't kick that high any more.

Well, as you have no doubt guessed by now, I do not have a shortage of attitude. I am seriously thinking about getting an electric guitar, though. Whatever, I am having fun (except when I try to do the F barre chords--still not fun).

Only 9,923.5 hours to go! At the rate I'm going, I'll become a master guitarist about the same time I die. (I'm actually keeping a practice log, so this is actually pretty accurate.) Seriously, if I can play at church or for a few friends and not sound like a complete idiot, I'll be happy.

I could pull off the high kick (actually, I have no idea what you're talking about, so I'm imagining a leg kick higher than my head). Of course, I might fall over backwards, but it would be spectacular at first. My first husband was one of those people who could pick up any stringed...

Clearly I understand that being a professional guitarist is definitely not in the works, although it would be awesome to be able to go on America's Got Talent and play something like "Born to be Wild" while wearing my motorcycle leathers. However, as I bought an acoustic guitar, it wouldn't...

Well, thank you to everyone for the encouragement and especially for the reminder that learning something--anything--new at my age can only be a good thing. I was just reading an article about Alzheimer's (my grandfather had it) and it stressed keeping the old noodle active can make a big...

Ah, yes, that could be an issue. I have to put my hearing aids in before practicing and taking my lessons.

Not a hero. Just someone who is easily bored and always looking for something new to do. :cool::rofl:

You could always take it up again!

There is an amazing video of Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, who also died of Alzheimers, in which Bennett looks and sounds like himself, performing with joy and clarity. Once the show was over, he didn't even remember it happening (I think this aired on "60 Minutes"). Brought tears to my eyes.

Oh yes, I've been schooled intensely on how to do barre chords. The problem is, my fingers don't HAVE a hard side. Actually I am slowly getting it. I got F7 consistently yesterday, which has to be one of the hardest ones because it's right next to the nut.

Ha ha! No. I haven't looked that young in about 50 years.

Oh yeah, couldn't do it without the teacher. Teaching myself is how I worked my way into boredom corner. But I don't think different tunings would help with the barre chords issue. They're so versatile I'm sure they're necessary no matter what, especially in songs that have key changes. I am...

A few months ago, I started taking guitar lessons. I'm 73 years old. Why, you ask? Well, when I was a kid, I took piano lessons for 10+ years and then I picked up guitar and became sort of a campfire guitarist. I got bored and dropped both. But I love music. I always envied people who...

Well, three. There are the kind who beat up the property AND don't pay.

The Grateful Dead, hands down. Musically extremely accomplished and diverse. Wrote music for Robert Hunter's spacy poems that made them make sense, could play anything from hallucinogenic rock to country to blue grass. In fact, about the only genre of music they didn't perform (although I'm...

I don't remember the highest groundspeed I've achieved in my C182, but certainly my most fun tailwind story is when I dropped my husband off in Oregon to pick up the Corvette I bought him and I beat him home by a much larger margin than anticipated because I had a groundspeed of 154 kts. Of...

There's a reason for that. If you have a crosswind, you have to crab into the wind, making it a partial headwind. So, depending on your airspeed and the speed of the wind, my guess is at least 240° of the compass rose requires you to have a headwind. So you have to get lucky for your wind to...

I like country music, but I like lots of kinds of music, so country doesn't dominate my listening. But I always like the humor in some of his songs. "Red Solo Cup" and "I Love This Bar" are hilarious. The Prime Country Sirius XM station was playing non-top Toby Keith for a couple of days, and...

I've been using Turbotax for many years. It's kind of expensive, but familiarity is a plus. My taxes are semi-complicated because I have to pay taxes in two states, one of which, unfortunately, is California, which requires me to jump through all kinds of hoops and fill out stacks (if printed)...