I've just realised it's now been almost 3 months since I haven't played my guitar. Normally, I wouldn't go 3 days without playing it. It's been because right now, me and my guitar (actually I should be saying guitars as I have both an electric and an acoustic) are in two different countries. I won't be able to start practising again until April. Hopefully, I won't be too rusty.
I have found that in recent times, I don't spend as much time on it as I used to. I remember as teenager spending hours on end just playing the thing, sometimes even losing sleep over it. But recently, it's been more like spending 10 minutes a day on it, and barely even bothering to finish playing any songs. By no means have I lost interest. On the contrary, I intend to buy a new one along with effect pedals (just a need a job that pays to finance this first). I guess it's because when I first started playing, I worked hard trying to nail the basics, and now that I've done that, I've put it in my head that I've accomplished what I wanted to. Now, I'm setting myself a new goal of going beyond the basics and just becoming really good.
I have promised myself that I will spend more time playing the guitar, but not go as crazy as mentioned above. After all, I want to be a decent guitar player, and that means working hard at it, and learning to play all sorts of styles and songs, even if I don't like them. As long as I practise at least an hour a day, I should reach the stage of where i want to be.
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