[musictlk] [musical] can a blind person play guitar

[brother Timothy Clark]

i might do that. 
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On Kislev 28, 5775 AM, at 22:09, Linda Mentink <mentink at frontiernet.net> wrote:

> Timothy,
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> You will not be able to submit your instructional material to BARD. If you want to try to get it out there to the blind community, then call John Hanson or someone who deals with the NLS music department, and ask questions.
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> Frankly, if I were going to use material, I'd want it to be professionally put together. I remember you saying to Kelsey that she should do what works best. That's not the kind of guidance someone who is learning needs, unless you can give them a couple different things to try to achieve something.
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> Call NLS and ask, though, and go from there.
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> Blessings,
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> Linda
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> At 01:35 AM 12/20/2014, you wrote:
>> i would love to submit my material to BARD as an in structure. how would i go about doing this?
>> Brother Timothy Clark
>>  feel free to check out the world of KC3CDU at
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>>  http://www.kc3cdu.blogspot.com
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>>  please check out my ministries page at
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>>  http://www.timothyclarkministries.blogspot.com
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>> On Kislev 28, 5775 AM, at 2:21, Poppa Bear via musictlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> > It is just time and practice IMO. I am in my thirties and just picked up the
>> > guitar about 18 months ago and I have came along quite a bit. The NLS
>> > talking book library, AKA bard has a ton of great guitar lessons to
>> > download. I would start off with the bill brown's introduction to the
>> > guitar. Good luck.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: musictlk [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kelsey
>> > Nicolay via musictlk
>> > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 7:06 PM
>> > To: musictlk at nfbnet.org
>> > Subject: [musictlk] can a blind person play guitar
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> > I've been considering learning guitar for quite a while.  I have a good ear
>> > and have solid skills on the piano, so that shouldn't be an issue.  However,
>> > I tried taking a guitar class at college and the one thing I really
>> > struggled with was locating the frets on each string.  For example, playing
>> > a chromatic scale on guitar was really hard for me since I found it
>> > difficult to move from string to string and locate the frets.  This is why
>> > I'm hesitating a bit on signing up for lessons.  Is it possible for a blind
>> > person to learn to play guitar? If so, any tips on how to make locating the
>> > frets easier? I really don't want to put Braille labels on my guitar if I
>> > don't have to.
>> > Thank you,
>> > Kelsey Nicolay
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