I was a kid when I use to roam
around my house with a toy guitar being a rock star. It was considered cute at
that time but if I do the same thing now still I would have the association
with a rock-star albeit in a different fashion i.e. people throwing rocks at me
and I seeing the stars. I am lucky to have an uber cool uncle who had been a
guitarist in a band in his hey-days (he is still good at it) and he used to buy
me these toy guitars and I was Jimi Hendrix in the making. Jimi’s magic was
short-lived and mine was even shorter . But then not everybody is able to translate
their childhood toy fantasies when they grow up. Girls realize that when they
find that Barbie is a different species altogether as her figure is biologically
impossible.
But some people refuse to grow up
or should I say they go in a trance when they reach the adolescent age (that’s
the beauty of life). Most of us guys have been through this phase. The Guitar
syndrome. We run around the pretty girls and even the not-so-pretty ones (engineering
guys would understand) trying to get-her but end up with a guitar. It’s the age
where we switch to hard rock as our preferred genre of music . Even if some of
us feel our ear drums being drummed by the hooves of an unruly horse and have
absolutely no clue what Rock music is, we are ready to bang our head at the
sound of metals clanging. (This is in no way a derision of rock music; I’m a
fan of it too. All in good jest). We see ladies going gaga over the guitarists
and feel that somehow this is the ultimate lady-magnet. The ones wielding this
weapon are able to bring alive the legend of the Pied Piper with respect to the
girls. Going by the research based on some empirical data that I collected this
fact has turned out to be true. But owning a guitar is only the necessary
condition there is a sufficient condition that needs to be fulfilled. YOU NEED
TO KNOW HOW TO PLAY IT (yeah buddy, there is always a fine print which we
conveniently forget to read). So, we end up buying this piece of instrument by
spending 3-10k depending on how deep our parent’s pockets are by convincing
them that they have given birth to a music prodigy. The self-confessed prodigy then gets a reality check when the guitar refuses to heed to his heart's tunes. Eventually, we come to the
realization that playing with guitar strings is not as easy as that with our
parent’s purse strings.
The closest we people get to
being a guitarist is by having a facebook profile picture of ours with the
guitar and a smug smile on our face. The guitar doesn’t help the cause but the fake
smile kills the purpose. Nevertheless, it has turned out to be a good business for
the ones who really do know how to play the instrument with a guitar class just
around any corner. They have varieties to cater to your every need depending on
how long you are willing to persist with your futile attempts. Learn guitar in
3 months, 30 days, 7days. Seriously? That’s stretching (the string) a bit too far. Alls well that
ends well. Some lucky ones do end up
learning the guitar (for the love of music) and get-her too. For others sing
along “Dekha jo tujhe yaar, dil me baji
guitar…”
