Guitar Lessons

This is one of my passions that is yet to be realized and can hardly wait for the day when I can strum away songs from my guitar. Here I think it would be appropriate to give some brief history of my tryst with guitar.

Class 2 - First time I was exposed to a guitar, prior to that I had only watched in television. This was when I felt and touched a guitar. Looked very interesting and appealing.

Class 6 - My liking for guitar had grown strong over the time and began liking all the songs which had a guitar instrument in it. I used to derive vicarious pleasure by trying to strum imaginary strings on badminton racket and cricket bat.

Class 8 - For some strange all the heroes in romantic movies seemed to have a fetish for the guitar and guessed that guitar was the key to click with the girls. But then I was supposed to be taking my academics seriously as I was entering a milestone phase of my education life where I had to make a choice of what I wanted to be in life.

Class 9 - 12 - Just kept postponing the idea of learning guitar due to lack of time and having too much of focus on Engineering Entrance Exams.

Graduation - Too busy having fun to even think of guitar.

Now soon after graduation after I had secured an admission in the MBA program of IIT Delhi, I had good couple of months with me to have fun before I was supposed to join. And on one fine day I decide to give it a shot. I looked up in the directory, made some calls and zeroed on an institute nearby my place.

Someone told me that you can master guitar in four months. Well since I had a couple of months, the least I expected was some level of comfort and skill to be able to play decent number of songs. But then I was wrong. After joining the institute I learnt that guitar was one of the toughest instruments to learn and master.

Soon after a month of effort all I could manage to play was a handful of kindergarten rhymes :(. And the return on efforts didn’t seem attractive and soon lost the steam.

But after reaching IIT I had heard some amazing songs like Hotel California which refueled my passion for guitar. Though I managed to get the guitar along with me to the campus, never had I touched it in the entire first year due to the academic pressure and occasional laziness.

This semester I have got an opportunity to learn guitar within the campus and have resumed or rather began my guitar lessons. This time I hope that I sustain myself through this and be able to play something by the time I pass out of IIT. This would be one of the precious things that I would like to take along with me after I pass out of here.

Till then...wish me luck!!!