Why do you

E. All of the above

B.

A and B.

D:

I never made it as an investment banker so this was my fallback.

A. I've learned one song in the last few years. I'm still learning from it.
    It is a Wes Montgomery tune. Everytime I play it I see something in a new way.
    As a guitarist I've always felt that if a tune attracts me enough to learn it, I have to
    find out what it has that pulled me in.
    An issue with a tune such as this is that I must not only understand what its about but
    I must apply what I've learned....in my way...my voice.

   One of the hardest things about learning a very progressive part(s) is working out the 
   location on the fretboard....very unlike a keyboard. One pitch on a guitar can be found in
   multiple places- the timbre changes but the pitch is the same.
   Timbre use to really help me hear where players were at. For those that can't relate -
   a note played on an "open" string has a much different timbre than the same note(pitch)
   played at different locations and strings of the instrument. Each will have it's on timbre
   and sometimes it's hard to detect. 
   Many of the older guitarists here can relate to that from trying to learn from listening
   only. We certainly didn't have the learning tools available today.

   
I answered my question because when I was very young and asked my parents
for a guitar (at about 6 yrs young) I wanted to learn...I wanted to hold a guitar and learn.

In the middle '80's after spending many years with B.C. and D. - A. is the only one
that matters. It was the starting reason and still continues to be the reason when all others have fell along-side the road.



   
  

Am.