Thursday, April 30, 2009

Guitargasms

I'm taking guitar lessons from a guy on my block. Its pretty cool, I got free lessons because I'm friends with his daughter. Me and his daughter fuck at almost every chance we get.

I don't think he knows that.

Bet anyways, every Tuesday night, I walk over to his place and learn to rock out. He is so good, Stevie Ray Vaughan would blush. He has about ten guitars, half a dozen amps, including one that's about 5 feet tall, and a wife that is apparently annoyed by that five foot tall amp and the noises it makes. He's done neat things, almost any song I named he could play, long as it was at least twenty years old, he pretty big into classical rock. He even got me into country. How? by making me play a really neat and fun country song. For Cinco de Mayo, he taught me flamingo by some guy I can't remember. Half the stuff he teaches, I can't quite remember. Probably more than half. But it's ok, I go back home and try to remember for hours on end rocking out on my guitar.

But the latest thing he taught me is "Old Man". You know the one. Why? Cause I don't know the guy, "old man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were." That one. Basically, he starts off with the intro, just going at it, but instead of just the into, he mixes it up, adding about fifty different things to it that gust sound great. Moving it up a string, then down a few frets, then doing it with cords instead of plucking, then slowing it down with such emphasis on some notes, the whole house shakes with anticipation. Then speeding it back up, really speeding it back up, more cords, new frets, more strings thrown in. Then he does it, a twelfth harmonic.

Ahh.

A little moan comes out of my mouth before I knew it. He doesn't even look up from his guitar, he's just happy playing, I don't quite know if the smile on his face was there before the moan. I don't even know if he heard that, he so close to the amp. I think his daughter noticed though, she turns around from the computer and gives me one raised eyebrow before turning back to the random crappy site for funny gifs.

I just sit there quietly and try to not look to embarrassed.

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