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tfw you play something you half-know on keyboard and realise it spans just over three octaves and many of the intervals involved are very close to a perfect fourth and you go 💭🎸❗️

‪tries to play something written for guitar on keyboard wow this is hard how are you expected to make these hand movements‬
‪tries to play something written for keyboard on guitar wow this is hard how are you expected to make these hand movements‬

been spending a few hours now trying to nail the iconic first few bars of [song] and i love how trying to learn to play some known material fluently on guitar is a mixture of practice and problem-solving, making gradual improvement both in skill and in strategy through repetition

oops playing with a consistent rhythm is very important when practicing. i keep forgetting i should try to play slow consistently before trying to play fast…

my dreams will be haunted by the sound of a continuous loop of the song i am practicing played at 50% time in the macos default general midi soundbank piano with metronome on

練習する、練習する、練習する、

もっと少し練習するぞ、後少し練習する、練習する、練習する、ずーっと練習する、練習ぅぅぅぅぅぅぅぅぅぅ

okay, enough teasing, here's an okay-ish recording of what i've been practicing the better part of three days now

i must have been a masochist to pick [rot13]qver qver qbpxf sebz znevb fvkgl sbhe[/rot13] as the first song i seriously attempt to learn on guitar but it's great fun

my arrangement takes some artistic liberties of course:

• i dropped the held G on the right-hand part when the left-hand part repeats
• the shiny high-pitched two-note chord is one octave down because the strings just ring better like this

the biggest limitation however, which i first realised today (😅), is that the lowest note of the chord in the ninth measure (not played here) requires a note outside of standard eadgbe guitar tuning

…but you know what it's not outside of? drop d >:)

time for me to get metal

of course after realising that i also realised that the song is probably straight up easier to play in drop d in any case because all these bass parts happen to be nice barre power chords in drop d… i think. i didn't actually try tuning down my guitar yet. that's for tomorrow :)

…and now my guitar's tuned to drop d i'm going to have to adjust the action and intonation a bit to compensate for the drop in string tension. i'm gonna have to commit to the bit! well, this guitar has humbuckers, maybe this is what it's made for?