Sitting Around the Campfire, Singing Kumbaya

I started guitar lessons yesterday.

Yes, I did.

Our Worship Leader at church offers them on Sunday afternoons and after talking about it for what seems like forever….

I finally became a student.

When he asked me what exactly I wanted to learn, I told him… “I don’t know.  I just want to be able to sit around a camp fire and lead Kumbaya.” (For the record, spell check says I spelled that wrong, but Wikipedia says that’s the correct spelling.)

You’re probably thinking I sit around a lot of camp fires, don’t you?

I don’t.  We make them occasionally when we go to the lake, but I’m not thinking that I want to lead the children in singing while their mouths are stuffed with graham crackers, hot marshmallows, and chocolate… just sayin’.

But I’m what you would call musically inclined.  Couple that with my love for music and the guitar?  Well… let’s just say Rock Band and Guitar Hero just aren’t cutting it for me any more.

I want to rock out.

I’m not sure where I’m going to rock out…. but I’m going on record to state that I want to.

I want to be able to play and sing worship music.  I want a different way to offer praise…. not that singing along with the radio isn’t good enough, it is… but there’s just something about playing… playing and singing… that can take you to a different level.

It will be a while before I get to that level… but I did get the chords down when he showed them to me…

Of course… I don’t have them memorized, but I CAN look at the little drawings of where my fingers are supposed to be and put them there, strum the correct strings and it doesn’t sound horrible…

Baby steps, right?

Right.

So, my plan is to practice this week… a little bit each night…in my free time… ha!

Last night I tried to practice and every two seconds Thing 2 wanted to take the guitar and show me something that she learned during her two lessons that she had a year ago…

(ok, ok. She taught me how to play a song…kinda. She’s way more talented than I…. )

And possibly, sometime in the near future, I’m going to be playing on my own…

worshiping… leading others in worship….

or maybe I’ll decide that the whole switching fingers for chords thing is way harder than the red/blue combination in Guitar Hero and hang it up…

I’ll keep you posted…

No, really.

I will.

Until next time…