• Registered: 2007-03-09
  • Posts: 12

Topic: Some Days you just gotta walk away...

Although I am only a beginner with this guitar yesterday I had a really great practice session, I played all of my excercises with precision and finished up with a nice, albeit simple, piece of music by Bach. Oh yes, I could have auditioned for the London Symphony yesterday  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_cool.gif" border=0 alt="Cool"> .

So why today did my left hand fingers definately dance to thier own tune, my right hand just not find any position at all and I couldn't play anything (even from the front of the book) at all ?

My daughter who plays clarinet is visiting today and she smiled and said "Dad, some days you just gotta walk away, it happens to everyone....music block"

Oh well....tomorrow is another day. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_cry.gif" border=0 alt="Crying or Very Sad">

  • Registered: 2006-08-15
  • Posts: 80

Re: Some Days you just gotta walk away...

She's right. Starting off every time with some simple scales excercises can help minimise such events though.

  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Re: Some Days you just gotta walk away...

If you listen to the Beatles Anthology 2 there's a track where Lennon goes 'I canna do it, I canna do it, I canna do it!' and then launches into a scorching vocal.


Have some simple pieces ready and make a point of working through them even when nothing else comes together. Sometimes it shakes the dust off unwilling fingers, sometimes it just mean you can say, 'yep did some practice'.

'The sound of the city seems to disappear'