Someone tell me to practice!!!

I'm expecting great things in June. Better get on it.

Thank you.  Not happening.  Thank you.

Practice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI

You can protest, but I'll send Russell more bass strings and we'll see who comes out on top.  If the bass strings don't work, I'm shameless enough to ship cookies.

I've got a new project to work on.  In addition to working out the rest of Devil's Right Hand, I'm going to work on a mash-up of Cherry Cherry and The Authority Song.  That will challenge my timing on the strums!  Still stuck in songs from the 70's it seems, but you know one thing at a time. 

- Zurf

Zurf- maybe it was the return to cold weather after spending a few days in sunny Florida?  Like you, I haven't really done one challenging thing since returning from Chordiestock.  I've been playing a lot - going through my songs, timing the lengths, sorting out the different types and themes and trying to pare my song list down to fit into a 90 minute window for a song writer's showcase I'll be performing in a couple weeks, but I haven't written anything new, played anything new or done anything challenging since leaving Jeff's.  Anyone else who attended chordiestock have similar symptoms? Could it be some sort of Madeira Beach Musician's Malady?  Or some sort of long term hangover from all the adult beverages consumed? Hmmmmm...... there probably were quite a few brain cells destroyed

DE

I think we all go through ups and downs with our music. It's a natural progression,the peaks and valleys. Sometimes,after taking a break for awhile,I'll come back to something I was struggling with,and pick it up right away. As said above,just play something for the fun of it. An old favorite song,just strumming the chords. Next thing you know you're moving along to the next song,and the next,and the next one after that.

Make practice fun,not a chore. No one likes chores!

Speaking of challenging I was watching an old series on Netflix "Crossing Jordan" and one of the songs that they played in the segment was a tune by John Hiatt "Thirty years of tears" I was moved by the chord progression and the lyrics and found it here on Chordie and printed out the lyrics and bookmarked the audio recording needless to say I am rehearsing it sometimes all it takes is one song to motivate you this song presents a challenge not only for the progression but the slide solo as well so maybe that's one way to get the juices flowing find a song you like that is not easy to play just a thought.

Father's Day weekend a few folks are getting together along the Potomac.  I'm sure that I'll have a wings and beer kind of thing in the back yard sometime or other.  Though looking at the calendar, just about every weekend is booked through the end of August.  It's disgusting. 

- Zurf

I am lucky, I never have to practice as I teach between one and four hours a day so I get a lot of playing done as a matter of course. Then again, I am geriatric and retired so I have a good excuse for not practicing but you, Young Zurf, have no excuse. Get your finger out and get them to work on that guitar of yours.

Roger

Carnegie Hall, Zurf.

Bill