Tuesday, October 18, 2005

How to learn humility

Here's a tip for any budding guitar teachers out there. Never ...EVER, regardless of how relevant it is to what you are illustrating play the intro to Stevie Ray Vaughan's, "Scuttle Buttin'" in front of a student on a Tuesday late afternoon with less than 3 cups of coffee inside you. Especially when you haven't practiced it more than twice...and then don't even think about being so really impressed with yourself that it sounded vaguely similar, that without a seconds hesitation you put on iTunes and play them the real version. It's abit like doing 70mph on a clear motorway then entering yourself for the Monaco Grand prix. From beyond the grave SRV made me look like a bumbling slow witted fool and taught me a lesson about humility and being a muppet. Today's lesson has concluded.

5 Comments:

Blogger Jess said...

Yeah, then try it while completely drunk and with a cigarette sticking out of your mouth, like he used to!

8:53 am

 
Blogger Graeme Campbell said...

And he used 13s as strings too, just to add insult to injury!
I feel like such a wuss ;)

9:52 am

 
Blogger Jess said...

So they say.... but on the other hand, it could just be all those hormones they feed the cows in Texas. Apparently he had a bucket of ribs flown from Austin to NY when he was with Bowie, must have been some kind of "fix".

2:32 pm

 
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