one of these days...

[godream]

... I am really going to have to learn bar chords. My hands are relatively large for a girl, and my guitar is relatively small, so the issue is mostly my gross lack of dexterity. Er. I should probably define a bar chord at this point. As you may or may not know, when playing a guitar one normally holds down one string with one finger. With bar chords, one indulges in a bit of finger gymnastics, the goal of which is to press all six strings with one finger laid across the neck of the guitar. It seems easy till you factor in that you have to hold the strings pretty hard, and for me at least the G string tends to sneak up into that indent between the second part of my index finger, so it gets muted instead of played, not to mention that while this little bit of acrobatics is going on you have to simultaneously twist your middle, ring and/or pinky fingers over a fret or two to further modify the notes of some strings. My fingers go on strike when I attempt to get them to do that. This is why I'm terrible at playing guitar. I am, though, getting a kick out of quietly mauling Eve 6's Open Road Song up here in my room, occasionally with the CD accompanying me, or just singing myself. I'll link the tabs I downloaded later; far too lazy now.



And now for something entirely different: The No-Shipper's Anthem, an amusing little piece of Harry Potter fanfic (if you're not too easily insulted.)