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Cryptic Excretions
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Cryptic Excretions
Attorney at Law
Joined: 01/31/04
Posts: 3,055
02/21/2006 9:47 pm
Originally Posted by: schmangeYou're only 13 so take some good advice.
Feel free to screw up because that's how you learn.
Everybody messes up the first time they try something so welcome to the club. Heck.. the first time I changed strings I wound them on backwards and didn't know anything about stretching them out so they constantly went out of tune. But the next time I changed them, I read a couple of books on the subject and did a pretty good job.
Now it's just second nature.

I'm going to follow up on this one and say don't be afraid to reread into the process. You'd be surprised at what you can find within the stuff you thought you already knew.
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