I think I reached neuron overload today.
One more group of notes to learn, one more traditional ballad ("It Takes a Worried Man"), and then every song I've learned flew out of my head. When I went back to practice songs I've already learned I could see the notes on the page but had no idea how to make the sound.
And they were easier than the song I'd just learned.
It was like I was one of the robots in Isaac Asimov's stories and my positronic brain was fried from a conflict between the Three Laws of Robotics.
The Three Laws of Guitar Playing
1) Guitarists may not harm a song, or through inaction (laziness and skipping practice), allow a song to come to harm.
2) Guitarists must play every note, unless by worrying over already made mistakes they allow the song to fall apart (as Voltaire said, the perfect is the enemy of the good).
3) Guitarists must preserve their sanity by stopping when their playing is getting worse instead of improving, even if they think they should be able to get this tricky bit if they practice it a little more.
When I was younger I loved Isaac Asimov's stories, but I don't remember if his robots liked music.
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before you know it you'll have the whole neck figured out.
Tough set of commandments you are working up here.
no.1 is broken thousands of times a day, (just in my house!)
I think that if they really want those terrorists to give some honest information, just give them an acoustic guitar, high action, heavy strings, and let them have at it till either
1. they can play eruption, by eddie van halen, note for note;
2. they confess.
I am in the same boat as you.
and sometimes I think the guitar is the worlds' most frustrating instrument to play. good for camp fires only.
thanks