One more baby step and a few conspiracy theories

     Hello! If this is the first time you been here to my little corner of the world wide web, welcome! If you've been here before, well, welcome back and thanks for sticking with me.


     To any newcomers (just in case, because I'm looking forward to meeting lots of people at the 20Time project fair tomorrow!), my name is Sarah, and I'm attempting to learn to play the guitar. I started almost two months ago, and I'm currently making very steady baby steps toward my goal of being able to play a song or two by the end of this thing.


     This week, I continued to decode my way through "House of the Rising Sun". It's making a little more sense, especially after I figured out what the heck the second line of music was doing down there.
Here's one of the lines I had in my last blog.



The first line was self explanatory. It's got like notes and stuff (that's definitely the technical term).  The second line got me scratching my head a little.


Theories I had about that puzzling second line:

1)  This is actually where half of the music is written, printed with invisible ink that you can only read when you are wearing cool, musician-y, Blues Brothers sunglasses.

 

2)  There's some poor guy trapped in a sheet music factory and he left a secret message in the second line, in hopes that a musician would find it while playing "House of the Rising Sun" and come to his rescue.

3)  The second line does not exist and I am hallucinating because I did not drink any coffee today.

4)  You see how the numbers form a pyramid on each measure? Illuminati. ( Because what kind of conspiracy theory list doesn't include those guys? Not a list I want to read, that's for sure).

 

 

5)  This is some sort of message from extraterrestrial life forms. I'm not saying aliens wrote the second line, but aliens wrote the second line.

6)  That guess I had last post about the fingers on the frets.


     Yeah, turns out I was right the first time. I'm pretty sure it just tells you which string to strum to make the note if the normal string's sound will be altered by the strings and frets you have your fingers of your other hand on. The line the number is on tells you which string, and the number tells you which fret, if any, you need to have your finger on.

     Not the most dramatic of my theories, but I am really glad I figured this out. It was kind of a break-through moment and a confidence booster. This is going to make things go a little smoother, so I can keep on improving and maybe take a bigger step than just a baby one?

Bye for now!

- Sarah

 

P.S. If you direct your attention to the right hand side of the screen, you can see a gadget I just added on that shows a picture of a cute puppy everyday! I mean, it doesn't really have anything to do with music or guitars, but it's adorable, so I put it there. Because why not. So, please, enjoy the daily adorableness!

 

Sources for images: http://thebluesmobile.com/tag/blues-brothers/ and https://vesselanaw.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/one-dollar-pyramidcrop.jpg