Matt
#FirstDabble
When I was about 12 I hassled my dad into buying me a guitar. Almost immediately I felt regret and intimidation. I had no frame of reference for how to play. Took a couple months of lessons, but it felt too much like school and my heart wasn't really in it.
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Dec 9, 2022 at 12:29pmWeb
Show threadMattDec 9, 2022
Cut to about 3 years later and I find out a friend is trying to learn songs on his dad's guitar. Suddenly, my enthusiasm for the instrument skyrocketed. We learned together, wrote songs, started a band. But I never did feel like I quite understood what I was doing on the instrument. My achievements were more dumb luck than anything.
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Show threadMattDec 9, 2022

So, 25 years pass with minimal guitar playing and almost no songwriting after the initial burst of teenage creativity.
Then, at 45 years old I decided I was going to teach myself to play the piano. Bought a digital piano, learned the basic chords from tutorials, and suddenly the creativity started flowing again.

It feels so good. And my brain understands the piano much better than it ever did the guitar.
Funny, the paths we take.
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