Alkahest my heroes have always died at the end

Five years ago, I did a lot of Tai Chi.  My teacher at the time constantly related the encouraging (?) story of a tai chi student who went to his teacher and asked, “teacher, when will my knees stop hurting?”  The teacher told him that his knees would stop hurting, “when he stopped learning.”

If the guitar is anything like tai chi, then I’m definitely still learning 🙂

Observations after a week of practice:

• The fingers on my fretting hand (pronounced, mah frettin’ hand) still hurt, but not as badly as they did after the first night.  I can practice for a good hour without too much damage
• About.com has a very good set of beginner’s lessons
• Chords learned to date: G, C, D, E minor, A minor and D minor.  If I remember correctly, all you need for rock music is 4 chords and a groupie – all I need is a groupie and I’m set!
• Scales are boring, but helpful.  I’ve got the chromatic scale down and I’m working on the E phygian scale.
• I need for someone to explain to me why there is no B# or E# – going straight from B to C and E to F keeps screwing me up
• I like the mathematical progressions in music.  You get a sense of why Pythagoras was both a mathematician and a mystic.