{"id":26029,"date":"2025-01-20T08:26:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26029"},"modified":"2025-01-20T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T13:20:13","slug":"music-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26029","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3057-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26030\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3057-769x1024.jpg 769w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3057-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3057-768x1023.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3057-1154x1536.jpg 1154w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3057.jpg 1502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OMFG!!! I just picked up, tuned, and played a guitar. For the first time in\u2026 ??? It\u2019s got to be a few years now!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironically it was in furtherance of a rather depressive poetic lyric that came to me this morning. Indeed, that has been rattling around my noggin for aeons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I\u2019d rather be asleep than awake\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3052-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26031\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3052-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3052-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3052-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_3052.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lookit all that dust!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, much to my surprise, and relief, I actually enjoyed the experience. And, against my own dour expectations of failure, I came up with both a melody (and\/or various variations thereon) and some supporting chords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One dissonant note: my arthritic first finger of my left hand is <em>not<\/em> helping! But despite even that, I think I have the nugget of an idea worth pursuing here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I shall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now that means practicing the chord sequence until I can get it down cleanly at least four times in a row. I\u2019ll then (re)record it, and stash it here, as a reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve also recorded very ropey initial vocal and melodic chordal sketches on my iPhone. For further reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMFG!!! I just picked up, tuned, and played a guitar. For the first time in\u2026 ??? It\u2019s got to be a few years now!? Ironically it was in furtherance of a rather depressive poetic lyric that came to me this morning. Indeed, that has been rattling around my noggin for aeons: I\u2019d rather be asleep &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Guitar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6LP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26029"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26035,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029\/revisions\/26035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}