Industrial disease.
A friend of mine was the world’s greatest Mark Knopfler fan. He would listen to Dire Straits and then pick and noodle on his guitar for hours. That seems to be the basic formula for all human learning and creativity: noodling on an idea for hours, getting lost in the activity.
Something I read in recent months pointed out that top competitive performers seem really bad when they are practicing. That’s because they go straight to the parts they have the greatest difficulty with and focus their repetitive efforts on those spots. That turns out to be the most efficient way to practice in order to improve. To onlookers, the activity looks and/or sounds awful.
I will have a Liz report later on, or maybe tomorrow.
First, though, I have to knock off some time-critical to-dos, or else I won't get Chrismas cards and out=-of-town gifts in the mail on time.
I took acoustic folk guitar lessons years ago, when I was in my twenties. Got the basic technique down, but haven't played for a long time. But one thing that's been on my bucket list for a while is to learn to play electric guitar. Where is it written that an older female cannot do that?