Tag: practice

Guitar practice in a park (2025-10-18)

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Want to hear me play guitar for an hour and a half? No? Then fuck off! The rest of you, check out the video below.

This time I’ve even added segments. Maybe that will draw some views from people who were searching for the original version of those songs. Possible it will also get me copyright-struck.

00:00 – “Your Hand in Mine” by Explosions in the Sky
04:36 – “On a Good Day” by Joanna Newsom
07:24 – “Passing Afternoon” by Iron & Wine
12:38 – “Passing Afternoon” by Iron & Wine
17:20 – “Baby Blue” by Badfinger
21:05 – “House of the Rising Sun” by The Animals
26:07 – “Swan Dive” by Waxahatchee
31:29 – “Can’t Help Falling in Love” by Elvis
35:06 – “Hotel California” by Eagles
41:57 – “Kingfisher” by Joanna Newsom
53:22 – “Angel From Montgomery” by John Prine
58:14 – “Lonesome Town” by Ricky Nelson
01:00:35 – “House of the Rising Sun” by The Animals
01:05:31 – “Baby Blue” by Badfinger
01:09:04 – “Passing Afternoon” by Iron & Wine
01:14:22 – “No Surprises” by Radiohead
01:17:38 – Excerpt from “Only Skin” by Joanna Newsom
01:21:20 – “On a Good Day” by Joanna Newsom
01:23:22 – “Hotel California” by Eagles

Guitar practice in the woods (2025-08-11)

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If you enjoy a deranged Spaniard playing guitar in the woods, I’ve got premium content for you.

That spot in the woods is quite isolated and rather unknown even for people who live around, so at the most I get three or four people a session passing by. They’re usually in a hurry. This time only a single person passed by: a woman wearing a pink sports bra, who grinned at me as I played. She was hot, too. The previous day, when I set up shop next to the spot where in a certain novella of mine I installed the memorial stone for the love of my life, I lifted my gaze and briefly connected with a woman who was passing by on a bicycle. She was also grinning at the fact that I was playing the guitar. It’s strange: people, particularly women, are usually wary of me, but put a guitar in my hands, and suddenly they look glad that I’m there. If only they knew.

Also, I recently went to my favorite guitar shop to ask why the thinnest nylon string always broke whenever I tried to tune it on my Alhambra dreadnought, only for the shop guy to tell me that I absolutely shouldn’t use nylon strings on my dreadnought. Apparently I should only use bronze strings, which is what you can hear in the video.

Anyway, that’s an hour of me playing other people’s songs. Enjoy, if you enjoy these sorts of things.

Guitar practice (06-12-2021)

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Today I could have either developed the scaffolding of the next scene of my ongoing novel, or I could have played the guitar. For now I’ve done the latter. Maybe a mistake, because the booster shot caused me some lung issue and after singing it’s gotten harder to breathe.

As usual, I uploaded to YouTube the whole session of me playing the guitar and singing poorly. The link is below.

Guitar practice (06-12-2021)

Guitar practice (28-11-2021)

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I hadn’t played the guitar since my current contract started. I could have either written today or played the guitar. Well, I can’t play the guitar at work, while with some luck I’ll progress on my latest novel tomorrow morning, turning the otherwise pointless Monday workday into something meaningful at least for me. Although there’s a good chance that the guy I’m covering will simply appear at the office, so I’ll have to turn around and go home. This is my life as a thirty-six-year-old guy who wishes he was either born as a giraffe or not at all.

Anyway, I uploaded the guitar playing session in two parts. I get into it quite a bit, and I sing poorly.

Guitar practice (28-11-2021), Pt. 1
Guitar practice (28-11-2021), Pt. 2

Guitar practice (13-11-2021)

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I was recalled to work a couple of days ago. I still feel off. I couldn’t focus on writing the next part of my ongoing novel, so I played the guitar instead. Below are the links for the entire session, that I uploaded to YouTube.

I finally managed to record a version of Joanna Newsom’s ‘Kingfisher’, which is one of my favorites to play, particularly the second half of the song.

Guitar practice (13-11-2021), Pt. 1
Guitar practice (13-11-2021), Pt. 2
‘Hotel California’ by Eagles

(I uploaded HC separately, because it tends to get copyright struck although I’m the one playing it.)