The Real Reason I Play Guitar

[hannaugh]

There are songs I can play if I don't think about them, but as soon as I start concentrating, I forget what I'm doing.  Muscle memory is weird like that.

 

[Ddbltrbl]

There are songs I can play if I don't think about them, but as soon as I start concentrating, I forget what I'm doing.  Muscle memory is weird like that.

Exactly! But I have the opposite problem too! Sometimes when someone asks me a question while I'm playing its like they hit a reset button on my brain and everything just goes sideways!  :toothy12:

 

[hannaugh]

Yeah, I know what you mean.  I can't talk and play unless it's something I really know on a subconscious level. 

 

[Ddbltrbl]

I was watching this interview with the amazing Carol Kaye and I thought of this post! Hannaugh, I hope when you're as interesting as Ms. Kaye when your her age! She has definitely seen it and done it! What a national treasure! :icon_thumright:

 

[stubhead]

Every once in a while I'll be interested enough in a gadget to (usually) make the mistake of trying to watch a YouTube "review" of it. And every once in a much greater while, the reviewer will actually sit down and, play a song in which that gadget might make a nice clean rhythm part in. It's like, astonishing. One out of twenty? One out of thirty... there are certain effects which I can only tell if they might be useful to me when they're really clean, the swirly flanger/phaser/"rotating"/heavy chorus stuff especially. They all sound like a pre-bad hangover drunk ear-barf mess when nimrod is channeling Robin Trower. And you realize - you can get a job doing that, without knowing any songs? :icon_scratch:

 

[Re-Pete]

I used to have a supervisor when I was building theater scenery who, if there was a machine acting up, would respond with "Wait, let me talk to it."  This was usually said as he was pulling a hammer or crowbar out of this bag.

One of my favourite sayings when Computers, photocopiers and the like start playing up is to walk over to it and ask if it wants a cup of coffee!  :evil4:

 

[hannaugh]

I was watching this interview with the amazing Carol Kaye and I thought of this post! Hannaugh, I hope when you're as interesting as Ms. Kaye when your her age! She has definitely seen it and done it! What a national treasure! :icon_thumright:

Yeah, she's pretty awesome.  I love that she is still teaching too!  You can have a skype lesson from her for like $50.