With two wives I'm surprised you're not singing the blues!
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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I'm keeping it. Took me a little while to see it, but I do. Thanks for making me laugh!
My man. I love that you're keeping it.
I suck at bass. Maybe we should start a bad forum band
The Typos
I play guitar, bass, some keys and I do a lot of composition in Ableton... when's the first practice? what instrument do you want me on?
Drums, obvs.
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Like OP, I suck at guitar and Ardour
Let's create the dullest band ever
For anyone with an electric guitar and a 3.5mm↔️1/4" adapter/cable-jack, checkout **Fee[dB]ack**.
Also obligatory fuk Ubisoft lol.
Whoah thanks for this! I’ve been trying to catch an electric at a yard sale or similar and this will certainly help get me going!
I need to find a tool to convert psarc files to feedpaks.
Woah, what has ubisoft got to do with dull guitar playing?
Playing music is very therapeutic!
Same brother, 2 months ago I picked up a pawn shop guitar after 15 years of not playing. It feels good to suck cause at least I'm trying. Keep it up that creative outlet is good for you
I picked up mine, and hung it back on the wall. To collect dust again, next to the ukelele. Wish I had made myself learn music.
I found that rather than 'learning music', it's more fun to learn songs. When it's fun, you're more likely to stick with it than learning scales or whatever. You can do that later if you want.
Grab that Uke. Get the Uchord app. Go to Ultimate-Guitar.com (you can switch between guitar and uke tabs), pick a song you know and like, play the track in the background and practice playing the chords. Pause when you encounter a tricky chord change and practice going back and forth between those two chords until it's fluent. Continue and repeat until you can play the whole song without the background music. Note UG will show you chord patterns, but Uchord will show you all the inversions as well. Sometimes a different inversion makes for an easier chord change.
Each time you learn a new song, the next one gets easier and faster to learn.
That's how I did it, anyway, when I picked up ukulele as an aging adult.
Hope that gives you a bit of inspiration to try.
Laughing at "aging adult" . I'm retired. Very very close to 70. Thanks for the suggestions! Will do!
I don't know where you're located, but around here there's monthly ukulele meetups where they meet at a sports club or RSL and have a sing/play along, and sometimes offer beginners courses. They're pretty popular with retirees especially. They're a good night out.
I started learning about a month ago having never played any instrument. There is no way around practicing. Luckily even with this little time I already see improvements. It's far from great but I can see getting there of I keep at it. I'd say take it down from the wall and do a little bit each day. You'll be surprised how far you can get in only a few weeks time.
Edit: for me it helped going straight to practising whole songs. I'll probably get to the technical basics some time in the future but right now I stay with songs that come to my mind and sound like they should not be too hard to learn.
this week marks the first time my drum kit (and specifically my double pedal hardware) has been assembled (and all on the same property) in 20 years!!!
That's awesome!!
My nylon has been out of use a while since I decided to try fixing the top finish a bit. Did the final polish last night and I guess it's time to put some strings on again.
Keep on playing.
Congrats on picking back up your old skill and finding some joy in it brother! I've been trying to learn how to play for around 30 years or so and never even got smoke on the water, just keep on strumming man!
Thanks! I continued today, and I can already remember more! This is fun, even though my fingers hurt a bit lol
I bought a (used) guitar years ago and finally took a few lessons some months. I can hit a few chords, no complete songs (yet) and learned that over 60 maybe isn't the best time to start (My fingers just won't get up to speed or my brain is slower or the two of them have some plot going.) Anyhow, It's like my welding. I'm no good at it. Sometimes I succeed. However, i'm having so much fun doing it that I keep on doing it.