Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for November 16, 2021

If your sister’s playing the difficult to hear, young man, then just stop dropping by the same area she’s playing in.

The hardest part is sticking to it until you get better.

Not that I ever got real good, but I got most of my enjoyment by making friends with those somewhat belter than me and playing along. It’s very satisfying to be literally surrounded by music!

My fingers are too thick for an acoustic or electric guitar so if I were learning how to play a guitar it would have to be a bass guitar

The face she’s making in the last panel. I’ve seen that face before. I have 3 ex wives.

She should give up

maybe she needs a stereo system attached to it so it would be easier to hear it. :D

She’s obviously doing something wrong. I guess she didn’t bother looking up any guitar lessons.

Reminds me of when my sister wanted to learn to play the cello when she was in the sixth grade. The entire household suffered for the 2 weeks she “practiced”. She quit on her own.

I use to consider myself to be a talented amature with the guitar until life got so busy that I couldn’t keep up my practice and set it aside (now that I have time my medical issues make it hard to play). Part of the reason I got as good as I did was that about a year and a half after I started playing I was asked to lead worship for my Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship group because I was the only person in the group that knew which end of the guitar to hold. Nothing teaches you faster than having other people who depend on you to do a job.

Gracie will bust that “axe” over Baldo’s kneecaps!

I tried it once but couldn’t deal with the pain of developing callouses on my fingers. I really don’t know how anyone gets past that.

You’re doing well to try, Gracie. Don’t give up!

I had to stop playing the guitar and the piano over a disagreement with my husband – I said I could play and he said I could not – he was right, the music gene passed my family by on both sides. I often can’t even recognize pieces of music without it being a song with lyrics.

Husband and I are 18th reenactors and he insisted I had to learn to recognize a certain song (not Yankee Doodle Dandy) which is considered the anthem of the colonies in the period. We would be at event, someone would be playing music and husband would ask me what it was. I learned fairly quickly that whenever he asked me this it was this piece of music and I would tell him its title and he was happy that he had taught me to recognize it. One day he asked what was being played, I gave the name of the song and that was not it. He was terribly disappointed that I had just been saying that song whenever he asked.

I can tell it is 18th century music and not modern. I can tell rock and roll and other more modern music from older music if there is singing I can tell Beatles from Rolling Stones and I can tell Frank Sinatra from Bing Crosby – and other similar groups or singers – but without singing it is not common that I can recognize a piece of music from another. Drives him crazy.