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Guitar Zero | "Most Unmusical" Contest
publication date: Jan 19, 2010
Ever since I was a young girl I have tried to learn how to play guitar. My sister was taking guitar lessons and she hated it, so I took her little cheapo guitar and started teaching myself chords. I took lessons starting at age 8 and the only thing I ever learned was to play open chords. Over the years I have had 4 different teachers. I practiced in my room for at least 3 hours a day until my late teens and never got any better. I always felt handicapped in this area and it has been painful to know how much I want to be able to make beautiful music and just cannot do it. I started lessons again when I was in my later 20's and got a little better by adding some melody to my open strum noise. It is like I can learn one thing badly and just can't get past it. I try and try to get past the baby steps but never advance. Practicing was never an issue, I dedicated my time to learning but there is something missing in my mental makeup to play music. I took lessons again in my thirties and the same thing. Just terrible. My husband is a drummer and he decided to learn to play guitar. He picked up my guitar and within a month he had surpassed my skills that I had been working on for over 20 years on and off. I get discouraged and give up after about a year of constant training with no results. I kept my guitar all these years and open it up to smell it as the smell is perfume to me. I sometimes still try to play some songs, but even my strum is bad. It is like I have one strum for all the different songs I play. Bad!!! Really bad. It is pitiful for the amount of time I have put in to playing this beatiful instrument. Untalented, Michelle  Watch the contest video.... |
