It’s the one big thing besides dancing that I get excited about. Guitar.
A few years ago I was sitting on my swing outside, really miserable and bored. I always loved listening to music on my iPad and did my usual check-in on Pandora and repeated listening to some favorite songs. I was playing with apps and found the Fender one. I did a quick download to see what it was like. Sort of liked it but thought….hmm I don’t know.
Great things come from those places you know? Surprises that you don’t see coming. Little did I know that I would my pick my guitar back up in a few years, get a subscription to their service, and be playing different styles like I love now.
It all began when my Mom gave me a subscription to Fender play for Christmas. I had been a professional dancer, gone back to class after semi-retirement and life was great. I was making art, jewelry, poetry, and living in pure bliss. Still traveling to Atlanta once a week to attend ballet class with a past instructor. That’s when life hit hard. I snapped a tendon in my knee , stepping off a curb, which let to complete burning an immobility in my legs. No more class, sadness, and it seemed to get worse mentally for me . I had lost my identity as a dancer and had to find something else to do.
Music was always as much of a passion as dance. Movement in dance feels amazing, but it’s the music that moves the dancer. I had always kept a little classical guitar going along with my ballet, but didn’t realize the options were so big for the guitar player and songwriter. It’s like dance. There is jazz guitar , punk, rock, etc. just like Ballet, jazz, tap, salsa dance. I started playing a lot more on the app and got excited about the future after years of moping around for something that inspired me again.
While I was healing I was browsing for good buys, dreaming of an electric. I had dreams of changing the world with my music! I was choreographing ideas right and left. This instrument here, this one there. It was going to be big. In reality this is a bit harder to do , but I’m still hopeful. I’ve learned that I love to write songs and melodies. It’s so much like dance choreography.
All the lessons and that instrument following me around were a gift from God. I believe that he gave me the talent and the classical guitar as a gift from my parents years ago so I would have something to transition to when I couldn’t dance as much anymore. With my Alvarez I could still waltz and tango and foxtrot!
Lastly in addition to this story , I was really inspired by my ballet teacher’s son to pursue the challenge of being a guitar artist. It’s strange how things work that way. Sometimes inspiration can come from different people and places , even people you don’t know. It’s good to go with the urge and find a passion again by following that urge. I’m forever grateful , mostly to my Mom, and good friends who always keep me going with something when I feel like quitting.
That’s what I get excited about.
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~McGlamorous
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