you learn to play guitar as a teenager, and when you stop taking lessons you stop learning. you never learn to read music, you don’t know much about fifths or eights or whatever but you can play a major seventh chord anywhere on the neck because you learned them for Eyes of the World or Stairway to Heaven or one of those. you briefly front a terrible high school band and nothing really happens in college despite constantly lugging a guitar or two around. you learn lots of songs, play them once or twice, and they fade. you grow up and have kids and teach them songs and play at the holidays and for your congregation and maybe even in the band. you want to play more.
getting better isn’t really the goal. the goal is to play every day, and to be ok with just being ok at this.
Normalize being kinda mediocre at something and still finding value in trying to get better at it.
— Casey Johnston, aka Ask A Swole Woman
The Rules
eh, well, I thought about rules, like “play it in one take and post whatever happens” or “no editing or extra tracks allowed” and things like that, but honestly, that is less fun. the better rule, maybe, is that only thing to take seriously is playing something every day and posting it.
The List of Songs
…is a work in progress.