MY GUITAR DREAMS---- THE START AND THE END(LOL)

The title's apt...that's wht my sis tells...so here i begin my guitar tale...u'd ask...y the
heck would abhineet want to learn a musical instrument???...i mean i never had an interest
in music then y did this sudden dream sprout up, ryt??...well..lemme clear the air a
bit..ryt from the tym i heard music...i wanted to sing just like those ppl on tv...in movies...c'mon...every1 has dreamt of this..ryt???...i know ppl who even took music classes and gave performances just because they had nothing to do.......i was better...atleast i wanted
to sing voluntarily....but i had a problem...i did try to sing(in school, home, anywhere)...but not for long...my singing aspirations were curbed by my music teacher when i was in class5th...lemme recount the incident...here i was...a young kid...all ready
enthusiastically for his first music class...the teacher came...greeted us...showed us that
"sargam" thing...yup..sa re ga ma pa...c'mon try it ppl..hmm...i was called and asked to
sing...wow...i felt i had a job at hand...i wass fairly confident of carrying-it off well
too..but alas...as soon as i started singing the teacher interrupted...he said-"son...u're
not made to sing..sit down"...how could that moron end up my singing dream??...i knew i
could sing...i didn't give up...i tried...and tried(never at school though) but could only
bring laughter to my audience's faces(mostly my mum, dad, sis and a few friends)..i still
remember my friend shashank's comments on hearing my recorded song-"dude...u should sign up for that show-"THE LAUGHTER CHALLENGE...u'll surely be funny"...well..so i decided--"i'll
only sing in the bathroom...and infront of ppl who can appreciate my way of singing or who
are worse singers than me(tarun,sardar,and every amritam-walla")....thus, my dream of
becoming the next kishore kumar ended...i didn't even get to reach himesh reshammiya's
level...that was bad...not even himesh...s***...that sucks...

Anyway...studies came in between...and then the holidays...i wanted to do something creative
in the hols....something which justified my passion...did i say passion??...y not
sing??...naa...i'll better do smthng else which is related to music but not exactly
singing...so i further thought...the harmonium--no--that requires a good singing voice and
looks boring...drumming--there ain't any good teacher...and it makes a lot of noise
too....GUITARRRRRRRRRR----yes---that's gud...i always wanted to do that....hmm..so i bought a guitar...a black acoustic gibson(from calcutta)...i didn't want to be an ace guitarist--i
can't become a jimi hendrix, can i?...but i wanted to learn the basics by the tym i started
my college...so that i could play a few songs to my so-called "audience"...

The teacher...hmm...his name was Arun Kumar Bhattacharya...a Bengali...said that he had 20
yrs of experience in this field...okay...i believed him...he looked lyk a "music"
guy....naa...he was not a rocker..an indian singing teacher to simply put it...always clad
in a red-kurta-pyajama...okay....i started learning the nuances of playing this b'ful
instrument called guitar...well...i worked hard...practised regularly...and even started
playing a few hindi songs..those lyrics...couldn't create the background music though(i
wondered why)....all was good..ppl had started to take my guitar seriously...my friend onu
seemed visibly impressed...now he too wanted to be a guitarist...

In between I had to go to Kota...there i met my friend "Exe"...had played the instrument for
the last 10 months...i thought here's a nice way to learn smthng...we sat and discussed
everything...the songs we play...the basics,etc....then i realised that i was taught in a
wrong way....my teacher had not taught me the western style(using chords)....instead he had
taught me the indian classical style(using saregama)---the way of teaching sitar...man...my
teacher was a "SITARIST" and not a "GUITARIST"....s***...i saw my dreams crumbling again lyk a house-of-cards....when i came back to gaya....i stopped my guitar lessons(not a single
soul in gaya knows how to play the guitar in a proper way..so i had to)...my guitar ended up
as an object of display...i still play the songs which i learnt...but that fire has
gone...maybe...if i'd be lucky..i'd get a good teacher who could rekindle that fire...but
till then i'm content playing the songs which i learnt...it sounds good...trust me...u ought
to listen...

PS---any wannabe guitarist should first do some research and then learn...good luck!!!..