The buttons are the old style for turning it on and off . Newer ones have them integrated into the hose handle . <| sep |> The most brutal thing I ' ve ever seen in sports is Dave Dravecky breaking his arm throwing that pitch . I ' ll never forget it . <| sep |> I ' m really surprised by my progress . In one month I can play most of strums and barre chords . I can do two kinds Travis picking patterns as well and I think it won ' t be that difficult learning a new picking . I don ' t know why but I usually like to just play random chord switches or same songs over and over again but with a new skill or new scale . I don ' t know much about scales but I know how they can sound different . I ' m learning a solo too . It ' s from trains by porcupine tree . That song was my motivation to learn guitar and while I can do the strum , I cannot do the solo or hammerons property . My question is that I learnt these by myself . And i did have guitar teachers before . I tried learning guitar last year but I failed and even broke my guitar in two . I could learn chord switches and it got frustrating after a month of practice . Especially with the teacher making me learn all shit about music theory . I just want to know if I ' m missing out on something . I absolutely love playing the guitar but I don ' t want to be in a situation where I look back at today and think Wow , that fun and not following the growth path fucked me up . PS I realized that I was ranting . But that was only because I am high . I nipped the rant towards the end .