![]() ![]() The Last of Us Part II Illustrates How Queer Spaces Are Not a Monolithīack when I was still something that resembled a musician, the thing that was most drilled into my head by various educators in my college’s music department was how frequently you had to practice lest your instrument get rusty. ![]() The Last of Us Part II Shows a Gender Double Standard for Violence.The Last of Us Part II Trades Interpretation for Canon.Nearly all my strings were close to a half step flat. But when I did the tuning myself and started playing some things, I realized the sound was off and downloaded a tuner app. I’d done it hundreds of times before, and back when I was working in music and writing compositions for choirs I’d realized I had perfect pitch recall. When the guitar arrived, it was mostly in tune, but it could’ve used some finer tuning, which I thought I could do all by myself. Weren’t guitar strings closer together at one point? I learned to play on an acoustic guitar so it’s not like my hands should remember the make of electric guitars any more than the one I’ve got.īut the most horrifying realization is that, after years of not really doing anything musical at all, my once pretty much perfect pitch has disappeared. Even my muscle memory is failing me, as trying to play songs I know by heart like large swaths of Coheed and Cambria’s discography is suddenly a struggle as my fingers don’t effortlessly land where they need to. I’ve gotta rebuild calluses that have been gone for seven years. But man, I’d forgotten how harsh getting your hands acclimated to playing guitar was.įriends, the tips of my fingers are in a great deal of pain as I type this. So a few years of school to get my degree and a job here at Fanbyte later, the Last of Us Part II guitar felt like a moment to bring it all full circle. I pivoted from music into journalism in 2013, prompted primarily by my love for the original Last of Us, and I pretty much put down everything musical I was proficient in then under the pretense that I would come back to it all after I got well and settled in my new career. The last time I played a guitar had to have been, at minimum, seven years ago. However, picking up the guitar after almost a decade of not using it kinda sucks. So I’ve got this gorgeous beauty of a guitar in my possession now and it’s got me feeling all sorts of nostalgic for a lot of things, both The Last of Us Part II (if I can be nostalgic for a game that’s only a few months old) and the time in my life where I was pursuing a music education degree. Even if it would have been literally thousands of dollars cheaper. For that reason, it was certainly the preferable option compared to the other Last of Us guitar Sony was selling, which is adorned with Ellie’s tattoo on the body and has the game’s logo on the head. ![]() You wouldn’t know it from a lot of the nerd collectible nonsense I have, but I’m a big fan of subtle merchandise that can exist in our world without calling a lot of attention to the fact that it’s meant to represent a piece of media. All-in-all, you’d probably have no clue it’s from The Last of Us if you weren’t privy to that beforehand. But it’s still a relatively small detail in terms of how much space it takes up on the guitar itself. It’s a notable symbol in The Last of Us Part II, and is even integrated into Ellie’s tattoo on her right arm. īut even with it being the nicest guitar I’ve ever owned, I keep getting drawn back to the moth on the third fret. So I imagine he’d be pretty thrilled to see me getting back into guitar playing a few months after his passing in June. I first started playing guitar literally half my life ago as a freshman in high school, and it was with two hand-me-downs from my dad, one of which he’d had stashed away under his bed when I was growing up, the other was something we must’ve gotten at a yard sale or a flea market so both myself and my brother would have something to play. It’s got a gorgeous sunburst finish and easily has the best sound of any guitar I’ve ever owned over the years. It was a simpler time, and by that I mean everything was exactly the same as it is now with one distinct difference: I am over $2000 poorer and in that money’s place is that very same replica of Ellie’s guitar.Īs I write this, the instrument is propped up against the end table in my living room, and it’s probably the nicest thing I own right now. Two months ago I was eyeing a listing on the Playstation Gear Store for a replica of Ellie’s guitar in The Last of Us Part II.
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