Mick -- Is the one you mentioned a book, or audio or video tape? Any idea where to snag one? DW -- is that audio tapes or video? How do I contact Grossman's guitar workshop? I love DVR's music...

Yes, Art -- my learning curve is exceedingly slight right now, given that I have a very hectic day gig. But I keep the guitar on my sofa at the ready and grab 15 minutes here and there at least once a day. I'm getting callouses on my fingers, and suddenly last week as I was noodling around, it actually sounded like music. It was the first time there's been any fluidity to it, or anything but just an obvious novice plunking from string to string. And then, just for a few minutes, I actually sang along while I made chords with my fingers. It was simply wonderful. All my life I've been a singer, and all my life I"ve been dependent on other people to play guitar for me. I've tried to play a few times before, but simply couldn't get through the being-terrible part (perfectionism, a terrible curse. Plagues my writing, too...). But this time I just decided to be awful and that I would never have to play outside my own home. I only wanted to learn to play so I can sit down with accompanists and say, "It goes from A to A7 there," instead of "No, no. I think it goes up a little there." But the upshot has been that I now have this little, tiny glimmer that someday, I might actually be able to sit down in the company of other musicians and strum along... WOW!

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