Thanks for the anecdote Jeff.

I tend to agree. In my experience, all musical experience contributes to the whole in playing any instrument.

Taking the decision to actually do something about learning to play guitar last year was inarguably down to the wealth of the internet and interactive publishing today having available so many tuition sources. Ultimately, committing to Guitar Tricks which is easily the equivalent and in many ways better than a personal tutor one day a week, [u]importantly,[/u] without the frustration of trying to do it on your own, or less clearly defined or honest motivation or other competing pressures intervening in younger years has really kicked off interest in that whole for me.

Very focussed on guitar for the moment, but I can perceive that expanding. So far I have resisted temptation to other distractions, notably bass, keyboard, drums. That said. I do have a 'confession'. I just bought a diatonic harmonica in C. No self imposed pressure. Just curiousity. Couldn't help it. More on my prior association with wind instruments some other time. Suffice to say for now I'd had a year trying to learn and play cornet as well back than, albeit with less than stellar results. In truth, that lacklustre performance was down to my disinterest at the time, as unlike playing percussion which I was drawn to and self-motivated to do, I was pushed into the cornet at a point in time which coincided and competed with the usual other emerging interests one has at that age when hormones are raging. Back to harmonica. I'd yet have to check the key The Beatles played this song in, and if C is Lennon played the harmonica part in, but I'll find out. Yes aware the harmonica being used here is chromatic. So many pretty harmonica fills in early Beatles music. You can see the motivational driver here can't you?!

[br]It's all so affordable and accessible today, whether a drum set or a keyboard. Don't get me started on my curiosity about learning keyboard. "Focus!. Be strong! One thing at a time".