Gitar Hiro

It is a long story. Beyond the story it is also a passion, playing guitar. To be frank, I did not devote my life to learn how to play guitar. However I always want to succeed it. I begged my mother to buy an electric guitar for my birthday. She promised to buy it when I will be fourteen or fifteen. I was fourteen, and naturally fifteen but I had not any. Sometimes playing guitar loses the importance, I find time to focus on my aim of living-drawing. I eventually found myself in listening to Metallica. “Unknown power” pulls me to itself.

When I prepare to University, as every lucky Turkish youth, I took courses in a place called “dershane”. There was a guy who is my first friend there. He was a member of a band in their high school. He plays electric guitar and tells me about the songs that he played with the band. These were all Metallica song by the way. At once he brougth tick, old book. This book was written in full of Metallica song lyrcis. When class was dissmissed, he grizzles the melody, I tried to synchronise the lyrics.

After days and weeks, he brought his guitar and amplifier. He played some songs from different albums of Metallica. I looked at him with big admiration. He has the potential. He has star “electricity”.

By being university student, you tend to be realistic and rational person. At least I gave up some idea, sacrifice dreams for future. Now I call these as realism. As a part of the “operation realism”, guitar was put on dusty shelf again. Although it stood on a shelf, occasionally it tried to jump down. The reflection of it on me appeared like that; I conclude my CAT* essay with Nothing Else Matters’ chorus. Instructor marked highly but noted that he could not understand what does it advocates.

I met with a game called Frets on Fire by my video game addiction. It is a game based on an ability to follow the instructions on screen and complete the task successfully. Instructions are parts of the song and every successful move sounds correct note of the song. Despite the fact that it seems easy by reading, on implementation you possibly fail. This game was the last drop for guitar love and inevitably it dropped to my head.

Finally I had chance to buy an electric guitar. I was impatient to play a song from Metallica. I can play any song since it is the case. If you have guitar you can play everything. As you know, it did not happen like that. Weird sounds were heard, guitar felt regretful of being a guitar in the hands of a beginner. I liked the tones gradually; it resembles something you are familiar with. The most important thing is I noticed that I did not lose anything of my passion over the years.

Nothing else matters (chorus)

So close no matter how far

Could not be much more from the heart

Forever trusting who we are

And nothing else matters

CAT

Cumulative Achievement Test in Bilkent University School of English Language