How do you get yourself to practice guitar?

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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Wolf At Bay wrote:
    xtremehardy388 wrote:
    It's great to practice and to want to practice but sometimes there is a period where I'm burnt out. I won't play. Instead of using the time to play, I use it to catch up on gear news or something like that. As long as I'm still devoting a bit of time to music, ya know? Also, bonding with bandmates, outside of rehearsal is almost essential. Make sure music is fun. If it's not fun, you'll grow to hate it.
    Definitely. Or sometimes you stuck on the same old shit, and a little time away can help you get a new perspective on the instrument, so you don't always sound the same, or help you break out of habits.
    This is what my band is going through. We're finishing up practicing for a few shows, in August, but we're getting bored with the same tunes. We're excited to start writing.

    Yielded: That's such a great idea. I never saw it from that way, before. I just picked up my trumpet, from marching band, the other day and though nothing of it (except that I suck since I haven't played in years) but it was really cool. I think that gave me the idea to "get back to basics" with all the instruments.

    Keeponrockin: Yeah, I was away and it was tough, or, on the way home, outta nowhere, I'll here a song that just makes me want to play. It's a pretty cool feeling
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    How to inspire yourself: Listen to any Jack White project... Seriously, I've been inspired to play like I haven't been in years.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I have avoided answering this thread because I kinda think if you haveta ask, maybe you shouldn't be wasting time pretending you want to play... :?

    No, that's harsh. :geek:

    Generally, I think it's the love of your instrument that draws you to it.
    Or, some concert you need to prepare for. Or, just the joy of playing music you want to hear.

    Maybe you should keep a guitar out somewhere that you can easily pick it up several times a day?
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    justam wrote:
    I have avoided answering this thread because I kinda think if you haveta ask, maybe you shouldn't be wasting time pretending you want to play... :?

    See, I thinks that is a pretty narrow view of the guitar overall. There's so many different ways to play guitar and practicing, as crazy as it sounds, can hinder some people. Sure you gotta play enough to keep progressing and your chops, but imagine if somebody like Hendrix or really most "great" guitarists from the history of rock practiced all the time to nail their parts. You just gotta know when you have somethin down the way you wanna play it.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    DewieCox wrote:
    justam wrote:
    I have avoided answering this thread because I kinda think if you haveta ask, maybe you shouldn't be wasting time pretending you want to play... :?

    See, I thinks that is a pretty narrow view of the guitar overall. There's so many different ways to play guitar and practicing, as crazy as it sounds, can hinder some people. Sure you gotta play enough to keep progressing and your chops, but imagine if somebody like Hendrix or really most "great" guitarists from the history of rock practiced all the time to nail their parts. You just gotta know when you have somethin down the way you wanna play it.

    I just meant that a person needs to have some internal drive and desire to do it.
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    justam wrote:
    DewieCox wrote:
    justam wrote:
    I have avoided answering this thread because I kinda think if you haveta ask, maybe you shouldn't be wasting time pretending you want to play... :?

    See, I thinks that is a pretty narrow view of the guitar overall. There's so many different ways to play guitar and practicing, as crazy as it sounds, can hinder some people. Sure you gotta play enough to keep progressing and your chops, but imagine if somebody like Hendrix or really most "great" guitarists from the history of rock practiced all the time to nail their parts. You just gotta know when you have somethin down the way you wanna play it.

    I just meant that a person needs to have some internal drive and desire to do it.

    Oh definitely. I wasn't tryin to call you out or anything, there are alotta freakin posers these days.

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