I admire people, who can play the guitar and sing at the same time. I cannot do it, although I can walk and chew a gum simultaneously. Anyway, this is again a skill that can be learned by practicing. So what I’m going to do here is to practice Happy Birthday and I’m going sing while playing the guitar. The chords are basic, so this is a good tune to start with. But before I can start, there’s one essential thing to do.

I let my kids play my acoustic guitar. Since their just little kids, they don’t actually play it. They just strum the strings as hard as they can, pull the strings or tune my guitar to low A or something. But its lot of fun for us all, so I accept the fact that I need to tune my guitar before I start to play. Today, as usual, the tuning was absolutely terrible. I wanted the guitar to be exactly tuned to E, so I could practice the song from the correct pitch. Because I don’t have any guitar tuners, I decided to find one from the net.

I searched for a guitar tuner software and I found this freeware called Digital Guitar Tuner. I downloaded it, because it was one of the first on search list and the features seemed more than I was looking for. It offers different tuning types and you can change the root frequency plus other features. A microphone is required, since the software doesn’t play the tuning sounds. But in a way this is good, since the tuner shows exactly when the string is in tune. The installation took only couple of minutes and I’m ready to go. But I have to wait for tomorrow, since the kids are already sleeping… Think I ‘ll just practice the song tomorrow on my way to work.