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She's so beautiful…

This is definitely a guitar I would own, even if it is not the guitar (Sienna Sunburst Stratocaster)…

Note to self: 57x675

What began as guitar noodling to stop me losing my mind turned into something like an hour straight of practicing thumbed chord alternate strumming with correct pick grip (the grip you need to not have a Jazz III fly out of your hand when doing this).

It feels good.

I'm really getting into this…

A girl in hikari_no_yume's body, playing standing up for long periods of time and enjoying it, and alternate strumming, and using thumbed chords, can you believe it?

All this standing up and strumming has convinced our smartwatch we've done an hour of exercise today, which has never happened before.

We are enormously indebted to our friend the musician Eons Awake, both in general for all sorts of reasons, but also in particular for the tiny little bit of IRL guitar teaching she was kind enough to give us last month.

Oh, not to mention intentionally using the bridge pickup, that's also out of character for us. https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01KQ20X152WGGEREJ3Z8XS1NBD

We're so used to downpicking that looking at that video, our brain thinks our hand is moving far too slowly to match the audio, it's funny.

Alternate strumming puts the “rhythm” in “rhythm guitarist”, huh.

This Iwasawa Masami is falling in love with the 7x79xx chord shape, and I am playing guitar in a way we never really have before. This is fun.

So differently in fact that our trusty Jazz III pick is suddenly accumulating wear at an alarming rate. All that downpicking we did over many months barely did anything to it, but now that I'm doing whatever this is, it's not going to last all that long…

Seeing that we have tweeted a video of us standing up playing guitar does something to our brain, huh… normally it's only our friends who do that.

You can really see how thin this guitar's body is too, it's not the normal Tele thickness!

Much of the wear on the Jazz III is probably from when it was tightly tucked into our fingers and I was holding it perfectly perpendicular and alternate-strumming by sheer brute force, beating the hell out of the strings and our fingers in the process. I'm no longer doing that…

It's now the kind of weather where the comfiest clothes for playing guitar in are also the kind of clothes I'd rather not post video of me playing guitar in on twitter dot com…

@hikari REAL