I don't have a real good answer to your question, I guess. I always liked the sound of guitar music. My father played rythm...no lead. He showed me abour 6 o r 8 of the "open" chords on the guitar. I guess I just have a certain inate ability. I was 12 years old the time I picked up and guitar and asked my father to teach me something. He taught me those few chords. By the time I was 14 years old, I was playing in a band for money every weekend. I am completely and totally self-taught, except for those first half dozen chords that my father taught me. I do not read music what-so-ever and have no formal kowledge of music theory. I simply hear something and then I can usually play it very soon afterwards. It's just a God-given gift, I suppose.

And when I write an original song, I just put together chords and a melody that seem to work well as a composite work. I do not sit and plan out a song before I write it. I just write it as I go. I've had a few good ones and few clunkers.

My start was simply wanting to be able to play the sounds that I enjoyed listening to. No real good story. Like police detective Joe Friday on the old TV series "Dragnet"...just the facts; just the facts.

Al

Last edited by Al David; 09/18/07 03:39 PM.