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torchickentacos · 2 years

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omg was talking on discord and something inspired me to dig out the video of the weezer cover band I was in (I think I’ve mentioned it once before?) and not a SINGLE person’s instrument is tuned it is just noise. also this is going to get me teased for being short again but I need to get back into guitar-I have three, two acoustics and an electric (all hand me downs that are older than me, I don’t have that kind of money lmao). but the only one I can comfortably use is the child size acoustic, which is at my grandma’s, and I keep forgetting to bring it back. but yeah instruments were not meant for tiny handed people like me. which is annoying. and hand injury inducing. edit: tags got super long. open on mobile at your own risk.

#I also play by ear which can complicate things #i can read chord diagrams and (kind of) read tabs but that's about it #I have wanted to be able to read sheet music but it just isn't working out #it's way easier for me to just hear something and replicate it #which means that the way I do my picking is fucked up apparently #I had a guitar class once (hated it)#and the teacher was like. hey taylor. what the hell are you doing #apparently with a lot of picking she says you should slide across the fretboard #like #get a string and to get a higher note. slide up the string #I just jump around all 6 strings in a small horizontal area #idk how to describe it but she did not like the way I did it #I could take a video of how I do it theoretically since apparently it is incredibly odd.#she had us picking notes by sliding up and down the fretboard. like ma'am my hand doesn't move that fast.#my hand is too small for what she was trying to get me to do #what I REALLY miss is fencing though. I loved fencing #I did it before my physical health got really bad #I loved sabre the most #and I was really good at it too. that and gymnastics are the only sports I've ever been good at #which in retrospect. gymnastics is because my joints are way looser than they should be #thanks eds for the gymnastics help #I did ballet for a bit but didn't have the patience for it #but I loved fencing the msot. one day I would love to get back into it #because that's the one thing I can say I had a lot of potential in #if I hadn't gotten sick I think I might have been able to have done it competitively #it felt like dancing. just an instinctual kind of movement #I can't describe it but it felt really zen to me #there's this really cool thing that happens with fencing where you leaarn to predict your opponent's movements #it's like a super zany form of communication kind of #and each opponent has different styles

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