Yep, you read that correctly. 
After months of saying I was going to start I have finally signed up to begin weekly classical guitar lessons every Friday. My first one is tonight!
One of the big reasons why I decided to take on learning to play classical guitar this year is because I wanted to be able to play popular Elizabethan music at Gardiner’s and SCA events. Music was such an important part of Elizabethan life and I really want to explore that in more depth. Singing is pretty much right out so that left me with learning an instrument. When I originally decided to start this project this year I took a look at all the instrument possibilities. The lute really interested me the most but I wanted to choose and instrument that I could take structured lessons on, not something I’d need to teach myself how to play. Teaching myself would be cool but I don’t really have enough time for that with all the other things I have going on. A big pull for classical guitar was that a wealth of popular lute music had already been transcribed for it and I could take lessons right down the road at one of our local guitar shops, Guru Guitars. I would still like to learn to play the lute, but I think that’s further down the road.
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awesome! i hope it’s tons of fun. guitar is a great instrument to learn, it’s super versatile, and there is tons of elizabethan music already transcribed for guitar.
The fact that a lot of music was already transcribed for it was a big pro for the instrument. So far it has been a lot of fun. Now I just need to keep up with practicing regularly.