My name is Jourdan Schermerhorn and no one can ever seem to get the last name correct so I just make fun of it... hence the username "Schermerberger" was born.
I've been playing guitar since '87 as a adolescent sprat in a local punk bank, even though I was a closet metalhead, who drifted into psychodelic noise and progressive english rock for a while while broadening my pallet of musical tastes to get into the sound of the jazzmasters (althought I've no clue how to do what they do), blues, folk and now at the ripe ol' age of 32, I can find something good about almost anyone.
A few years ago I was struck with a guitar rut and a bug of curiosity for the bluegrass banjo which I purued to the entry level and fell out of and back into my six stringed friend from old. Now I am trying to hone some new chops, skills and understanding about the instrument I enjoy.
I recently flew on the
Plane Talk and am diggin' it. The thought of how it works is along the same way as I've learned but goes beyond to present a whole scheme - it's great.
I picked up the
slide many years ago and left it until this past spring. I hope to get to the place where there is a fluency in playing slide in standard tuning where I can make my favorite hymns sing with a new zip.
I play a DEAN Performer A/E with plectrum, 5 nubs and a bit o' slide. Just happy to be here and learn a thing or two.
by the way did I mention, sliders are the best type of berger