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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Well ... there is a hole in the guitar ... |
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Location: Michigan | Brad that has been happening to me alot in the last year.I don't know about you but the stress level of my life is getting tougher by the day and sometimes when I get home what use to be my stress reliever ( my guitar ) I just bypass for a QUIET time on the couch or on the patio listening to nothing.
But on another note I came home tonight and decided to play and I went to my Telecaster and plugged in and turned it up and played electric for a while and it got me going again.
SO JUST CRANK UP AN ELECTRIC GUITAR WITH A LOUD AMP UNTIL MOMMA STARTS SCREAMING AT YOU TO TURN THAT SHIT DOWN .AFTER THAT YOU WILL GO BACK TO YOUR UNPLUGGED OVATION AND THAT SHOULD KEEP YOUR WIFE AND YOU HAPPY AND IT WILL TAKE YOU OUT OF YOUR SLUMP AND GET YOU BACK TO PLAYING AGAIN.
It worked for me.
I think what you are going thru is just a bit of Ovation De-Tox.You will live thru it.GWB |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I seem to have broken out of my funk - at least for tonight. I started going through my guitar playing links on the web and ended up playing along with the White Album - Julia, Dear Prudence, Blackbird. Then I found a classical music guitar tab site and started messing around with Bach's Toccatta and Fugue in Dm. It's so cool when you try and play something difficult for the first time and it sounds halfway decent.
For anyone interested:
Classical Music Tabs |
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| I just keep an assortment around me, right now it's pretty good..wideneck classical, adamas 12, ute, balladeer, neck through 6, and a hollow body 6, still need a nice leo tho..switch up styles and songs a lot.. and the fingerpicking on the ute and the classical have done wonders for my playing..I have 2 nice little practice amps an old Rock Petros I.. with a new rajun cajun eminence in it sounds like a dirty boogie, and an ac60 with chorus and reverb for the a/e guitars and vocals..
I have guitarpro and about 10000 tab sets on the computer..(which I almost never mess with or use) and pick a lot off youtube vids.. but we run our businesses from home via the computer, and they're always in arm's reach as well..
plus Slydog brings over at least 1 a week for me to check out that he just added to the collection/library so I get my share of Ice Cream.
right now I'm barely touching the electrics, at least lately... been working and practicing with the classical, 12, and ute..
next week... who knows.. might even tune up that new banjo... :eek:
good luck with the slump... it'll go away.
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Location: Michigan | Brad what is the update on your guitar slump?
It has been 2 1/2 weeks now?
Your slump has coincided perfectly with our baseball team the Detroit Tigers?
I hope you both get on track soon. GWB |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Hello Slipkid and all you other "I do n`t know what to do with my guitars"...move your great white`s and get busy,stop moaning !!
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | BTW CrimsonLake,that`s a nice website,gracias :)
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | ..and now I`ve become immensely impopular ( insensitive beast that I am ) ..yet that`s the best cure..Get On With It !!
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Location: San Bernardino, California | "I got dem ol bio-rhythm blues again ...." |
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Location: south east Michigan | Yep.. things are coming around.
The suggestions listed here helped.
I was just bored. My song book was giving me no real pleasure. I felt I was just playing the songs to stay proficient with them.
Things turned around at the last practice. Instead of bringing "the" book, I brought the secondary book with all new/old stuff in it. These were songs from over two years ago that we may have given up on or meant to work on but just never got to. Some of them were just to hard at the time but now we find we just might have developed the chops to make them work. We had the most fun with an early British Invasion number that we are going to save for the next OFC Tour. It's one of those, "I can't beleive we are really going to do this" type of songs.
So.... I'm thinkin' that I'll make a list of songs that we want to stay fresh on. Then when we practice we'll run through 5 or 6 of them to warm up on. At the next session we'll run through the next 5 on the list. With that system in place we can now spent the rest of the time working on new stuff and not worrying that the other songs we like are going to fade away.
And I don't even want to talk about the Detroit Tigers.
GWB... Folkin' Fridays at Huber starts up in October. Put it on your OFC calendar and lets hook up. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | If it's any consolation to ya Brad, I'm in the middle of a major slump right now too. No interest in picking a guitar up, bored to the back teeth with my repertoire, not interested in learning new songs or techniques, even my 'local guitar club forum' project/thingy is on hold coz even if I found someone to jam with tomorrow, I just don't want to do it right now.
I've hardly even visited the OFC site over the last few weeks.
However, other than my absolute disinterest in guitar playing, life is good. |
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Location: south east Michigan | :D Enough time to fiddle-fart around with photo-shop but no time for the guitar. I've been there brother!!! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Put it on your OFC calendar and lets hook up. There are RULES about soliciting on the OFC!
I expect so much better from you...
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Am I in a guitar slump or is it just a case of Bio-Rythm Blues?
