My first guitar was a Sears acoustic. Talk about high action The strings we re probably 3/8 inch from the the fretboard! My mom taught me how to play the melody of hot cross buns from a Mel bay book, but i became discouraged from bleeding fingers and not really wanting to play melodies so I quit. We couldn't afford lessons from a real teacher.i eventually learned chords at a community class a few years later and bought a better guitar. Been playing thirty years.
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