During certain chunks of time, I might not sit down to play guitar for 2-3 weeks. It really is a barometer for well-being. You get caught up with work,or writing about shits, or your brain is just too tired to attempt it .
When you finally sit down and hold the thing, it feels like you haven’t put in the hours that you truly have.
But.
little by little, all those memories start coming back, and your hands get loose,and you learn to forgive yourself for the stiffness of the first 15 minutes.
Using a delay effect helps. Just start by keeping time with the ping-pong. Let yourself strum some basic-bitch chords and only worry about getting the tone right.
Little by little, Strike a chord and do a baby scale run, just a few notes, no need to be a bad mother-fucker,just remember how much you like doing it.
A professional would be disciplined, treat your practice time like going to the gym, very rigid (very effective)—–I swear, if I had that one piece of the puzzle I could be good at a lot of things . But don’t beat yourself up, just play the thing.
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