Learning To Play Guitar

So I learnt to play guitar a great many years ago, but I never stuck with it. “Learnt to play guitar” is probably a bit of a stretch actually, all I can remember to do now is tune the bloody thing and strum a G chord. I always found it kind of confusing the way notes were scattered on the fretboard. There is a logical order to it but as a piano player where the keys are situated linearly in front of you in a single row going to a completely new thing is kind of weird. This wasn’t really the main reason of course, it was just hard to persist with something you suck at and don’t see quick results with. But this time I will try to persist.

I will be taking notes throughout my lonely afternoon adventure.

The Golden Record and the Music Industry

The Voyager program consists of a pair of unmanned scientific probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable planetary alignment of the late 1970s. Although they were officially designated to study just Jupiter and Saturn, the two probes were able to continue their mission into the outer solar system and beyond. [link]

The Voyager Golden Record is a phonograph record included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. It contains sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. It is intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or far future humans, that may find it.

[Permission was asked] to include “Here Comes the Sun” from the Beatles’ album Abbey Road. While the Beatles favoured it, EMI opposed it and the song was not included. [link]