good days/bad days

[nemo87]

..do any of you get good days and bad days when jamming..?

theres been times when i set up to practice and no matter what i do or change, everything just sounds crap.. guitar.. amp.. ME..! haha

but then theres days (like today) when i plug in, and everythings amazing.. the guitar practically plays itself..! i didnt want to put my junior down today..! settings and set up where exactly how i left them the last time i practised, but tonight.. pure magic lol..!

i guess its just a frame of mind thing really..?

anyone else have days like these..?

[Rico]

Are you kidding me.! There are times when I just want to take the guitar and do a Pete Townshend on it. Times I feel the AMP has gone haywire. Times when I just want to quit and become a civilian. But then the next time I play, I find it's all good. Life can be like that.

[Joeydego]

hell yes! Times when 17 years of playing all seems to go to shit. Other times Im king of the world. Perfectly normal.

[buckwild]

Originally Posted by nemo87

..do any of you get good days and bad days when jamming..?

theres been times when i set up to practice and no matter what i do or change, everything just sounds crap.. guitar.. amp.. ME..! haha

but then theres days (like today) when i plug in, and everythings amazing.. the guitar practically plays itself..! i didnt want to put my junior down today..! settings and set up where exactly how i left them the last time i practised, but tonight.. pure magic lol..!

i guess its just a frame of mind thing really..?

anyone else have days like these..?

Yes, absolutely. It's usually when I'm playing guitar by myself, some nights it's just hard to believe how much I suck

[stinger]

I get this too. I think with me if I feel a little less energetic then it seems to translate into my playing. But I have had it where I kept going and I'd seemingly warm up and then I sounded good.

[Joeydego]

when you get an off day, set the verb to about 4 seconds and a 50% mix, and couple that with a full second of delay at a 75% mix. that ought to fix everything.

[Rico]

Originally Posted by Joeydego

when you get an off day, set the verb to about 4 seconds and a 50% mix, and couple that with a full second of delay at a 75% mix. that ought to fix everything.

Or, and this always works for me.

Get a tall glass, soak it in water and place in the freezer box. Get a bottle of rum, I like 151 and some coke (soda). Take the tall glass out of freezer, fill it halfway with ice. Pour a shot of 151 rum in there and then pour some coke in there. Raise glass to lips and sip it down. Repeat as necessary.

[Paul]

i'v felt like throwing my V through the front of my fender twin i just couldn't get it to sound right but thankfully i havn't gorn nuts yet.

[Deftone]

Lots of practice seems to make bad playing days go away for me. But when I'm really in a funk, I'll get drunk listening to some of my favorite tunes, then wake up hung over and play. I seem to always be able to get in a wicked groove when I'm hung over.

[specter1001]

I watch some videos of clapton, bloomfield, and others on youtube to get me in the groove before i play. practicing seems more fun when i do that and i feel like im getting better too.

[BlaZ1n]

What gets me is when you are just playing. Not really playing anything and you play a great lick and then can't play it again. I hate that.

[LJGriggs]

Originally Posted by nemo87

..do any of you get good days and bad days when jamming..?

I think "bad days" come from lack of focus. You have to get in the right "frame of mind" to play your best. Sort of like how you should do some stretching before a physical workout. Lots of different methods to get in the groove (some are not so healthy as others). One thing for sure...Even the worst day jamming beats the best day working, especially with a Les Paul in your hands...

[Bacardi and Bloke]

Last month a friend/coworker of mine snuck his acoustic into work and was playing some stuff for us when he broke a B string. He didn't have a replacement, and you could tell it was driving him NUTS, but he kept playing. He kept apologizing and hemming and hawing, but everyone was enjoying it about the same. Kind of even enjoying watching him work around it.

He went home thinking: "Man, I wish I could have showed those guys what I could REALLY do!"

And everyone else went home thinking: "Man, thank god someone broke up the monotony of the workday with some great tunes"

When you compare your best night to your worst night, yeah, maybe you're 10% better or worse. But don't let it discourage you, because when you're comparing music to NO music, those are biblical proportions of disparity: Let there be music!

[Big Bear]

Before a jam, I always utter - "May the guitar gods be with me" haha

[scoobyzjr]

When I was in my 20's, I never seemed to have a "bad" day - there were times when I seemed to hit a ceiling in my playing and would have to work hard to break through, but now that I am approaching 40 (sigh) I find that I have good days and bad days. I chalk it up to stiff joints or maybe the fact that work keeps me from playing as much as I would like. Either way, it beats a poke in the eye!

[Switchbackmana]

Yeah for sure, that has happened to me. Makes me want to burn my guitar and maybe even my brain. But, that doesn't last.