August 16: String Theory

One hand has but five fingers, yet guitars

Have six strings, and in standard tuning

The intervals aren’t constant, and the barres

Are tough at the first fret, and when you’re crooning

You poor guitar must rest upon your knee,

Which ruins voice support at times you play,

Unless the need for strap you did foresee,

Though fingertips by steel are stripped away.

But if you learn four chords, you hold the key

To rock and tens of thousands other songs

John Denver, Green Day, U2, “Let it Be-”

It makes one toler...