Little Miss Big-Time Movie Star Gwneth Paltrow is talking trash about me. She says I'm a nerd.Paltrow took up guitar in order to play a country singing star on the skids in the movie "Country Strong" and even got lessons from her husband Chris Martin, who happens to be the frontman of Coldplay. She's sticking with the guitar but sounds a little disdainful of pluck and pickers like me.
"I'm such a nerd," she told one interviewer. "I go on the Internet and I get the chords of a song. I love it. I do it all the time. If there's a chord I don't know, you can go on the Web and see it drawn out ... It's nerdy. The musicians I know would not have to do that."
I'm not sure how all my rock star friends do it and I'm stuck with a spouse who doesn't know a thing about the guitar but Miss Paltrow just described my standard instructional technique. Sitting there at the computing machine, Googling up chords and tablature for songs I want to play.
There's no shame in playing your guitar in front of the computer. It's possible to be a computer nerd and a guitar nerd at the same time.
2 comments:
I do it quite a bit.
sg
And the computer does not critique my playing. Thankfully.
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