Hello everyone,,
Some days I cannot do any music activities. Other days I find myself doing a lot of DAW-centric activities. As a result, I got in to a really bad habit of not playing guitar for sometimes 3-5 days in a row. Getting back in to form takes at least three days for me.
Day-1 is some awful, out of time, stiff wristed plucking chord missing cat terrifying audible torture. If I make the mistake of needing to record some guitar hat day, it is almost always replaced.
Day 2 is better. I can do basic chord progressions and a few canned riffs in whatever minor pentatonic scale I'm in. Arpeggios beyond the simplest are a chore. Good rhythm that sounds like it belongs with the other instruments in the song is still out of the question. So too, apparently, is any ability to create any sort of original sounding guitar part.
Day 3 comes along and I am now comfortable behind the guitar and I regain my mediocre level of playing I was at a week or two before.
No real point to this post other than to remind myself and maybe anyone else still reading to make sure you pick that thing off the stand and at least noodle a little bit every day you can. I'm sure it doesn't sound as bad as I say, but as my ear has gotten better and things like timing and rhythm done poorly stick out more and more, it take more to keep crisp and fresh at the guitar than it did when I was strumming out "Dead Flowers" 20 times a week.
