How I learned to play guitar from an old cassette tape

In the spring of 2018 I decided I wanted to be able to play the songs I was writing. So the next step I took was to learn to play guitar.

The first thing I did was borrow my husband’s grandpa’s old guitar he had left him. Then I found a couple of old beginner guitar cassette tapes my Dad had given me way back in 1997. I had never listened to them before.

I still had my old 1990’s boombox so I popped them in and tried to see if I could at least learn how to tune a guitar.  I began to push play and rewind over and over on that tape until I learned how to tune.

Thinking that there had to be a better, more faster way to go about learning to play guitar, I signed up for a beginning guitar community education course at my local city hall. I also got myself a digital tuner on Amazon! I took five of the six 45 minute lessons, and since then I’ve self taught myself.

Today, I have a built-in tuner on a new guitar that fits me better. It’s a Taylor GS mini.

Learning to play guitar has been quite the adventure! And I’m excited to just keep going. Join my adventure here.

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