My dark past!

by Dave W
(Southampton, England)

From age 14 to 40 something? I played drums in a semi pro 'PoP' club & pub band. Well several actually & when I got too old...fed up with humping all that kit around I wanted something musical to continue to occupy me.

I learn't to read score for drums in my early years & so only had to add pitch & other non-drum score material into the pot to make the reading skill work.

However, in the beginning I turned to steel strings & strum 'n' hum material. This however did'nt give me what I sought & so I brought a keyboard into play. Not very well though & I secretly found that trying to learn keys & strings spread me too thinly.

Around the same time as this I also recognised that stum'n'hum wasn't floating my boat so much either. I wanted to play both accompaniment & melody. CG provided the answer by way of an interest in general fingerpicking skills.

3 years later I commit 1 hour a day min to CG but have lately also started to introduce non-classic material such as Beatles & other 60's-70's arrangements into the mix.

My inspiration to keep going when frustration hits the wall. Your LCG site along with other interactive forums provides videos to watch and aspire to.

However there's always soooooooo much material I'm not even fully through what's here.

Please, please, please keep it coming, I really need that next example to aim for.

That's my lot, cheers! Dave W