Ive been feeling really bored on guitar lately. I play thirty minutes of Folk fingerstyle and Scale Practice, then i jam endlessly on a mix of personally composed songs and well known songs, and ive been finding this to be a drag lately, and already feel it affecting my playing. I mean the practice is always motivational, but i fear my blues is getting stale, and if that gets stale my own compositions will suffer as well as my will to play cover songs. So what should i do to remotivate myself for blues and improv, i feel like im playing the same formula to the same beat and getting a same sound and its just bummin me

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I found the cure years ago for funks such as this: Get out jamming with some people. If they are better than you, you'll learn stuff. If you are better than them, you'll learn how to plug holes better. Either way, it is better than relying on everything by yourself out of your own head, playing to yourself. It's all about fresh ideas and the inspirations which come from them!

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You dig?

There was a Brian May quote that might help. I forgot the exact quote, I'll post it if I can find it.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Glam Rock, full length mirror and you'll be good to go Rock On, music scene is ripe for another Glam revival, seriously though you might want to just walk away from it for awhile lay the guitar down switch the computer off and read a book, go fishing or just a long walk, break up your daily routine in some way, or you could just continue to suffer for your art, me I'm done with the suffering bit life's to short, give a little whistle and all that, hope you get out of the rut your in NC, sure others will jump in to give some sound advice

Try learning a song that's completely different from your usual stuff. Mess with the rhythm of what you're doing. Take a simple song and mess with the arrangement & rhythm until it sounds like a completely different song.

As othere said: Set your guitar aside until you can no longer NOT PLAY. Find some people to play with.

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Shirley Has The Blues

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Wasn't it you who recently posted his 5 minutes of this, 5 minutes of that, 10 minutes of this schedule not very long ago - talking, I believe, about motivation then, too. Maybe you should just put your guitar away for a few months and see if it excites you when you get it back out again.

In the end, motivation is up to you. Do it or don't.

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Dennis in CR
Rockin' since 1963

+2 or is it +3

Seriously....How old are you.. 15 ..16 ...
You cant' play the Blues....perhaps you haven't lived long enough yet....Whatever you do...Don't go up to an Old Blues Guy ( someone at least in their 50's ) and tell them what you just posted.

Forget Music for a while or better yet that PC, go out and smell the roses, but beware of the prickers.....Then come back with a fresh albeit bloody outlook....

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"C'est parti mon Kiki "

Indeed it was, but the thing is though i get a kick outta the practice, but just not out of the actual playing when time comes to jam

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Your from Connecticut, your white(guessing), technically, off of your basis, i can say you cant play the blues. The blues is a feeling, not something you can achieve by age, you dont have to be 69, black, broke, and working hard to play the blues(but it helps ) that commentwas alittle ignorant considering ive heard BB King and Son House say otherwise. Nothing personally, lets keep this civil cuz i can forsee a $@!& storm if we dont take it easy

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WOW.....What does race have to do with the ability to play a style of music.....
I just said you probably haven't lived long enough, which and of itself is not a dig but rather an observation gleaned from your past posts...

Or Have you conveniently dismissed the particular S--T Storms that you have posted numerous times. Careful what you wish for.
Hearing someone say something from a recording is not firsthand, so if you really want a debate about playing I'll be more than happy to contend...
As far as playing the Blues, I can certainly play that form, but again it isn't about where you are from but rather life's experience which formulates your creative output.
For myself Blues is not just one format as I enjoy playing multiple styles from Alexis Korner ( you do know who he is... ) to 10CC to Gaspar Sainz..to...Alvin Lee....Eric Johnson to.....

I currently may live in CT but by the time I was your age I had a well stamped passport..

If you are going to post absurdities then don't be surprised if the reply is not to your liking,
taking into context what you have posted in the past, I take what you post with a large grain of salt.
Perhaps time will prove the past as a temporary youthful stumble....

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"C'est parti mon Kiki "

you said he cant play blues, 'perhaps you haven't lived long enough yet', and what makes you say that young people cant have experiences that spark creativity

and whats up with your first response? he just wanted some advice, not some guy tellin' him he cant be a blues player cause he's not old enough

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riley

Someone doesn't know what rap is!!

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

as for my advice, well its the same sutuation here. im learning alot more skills/songs than i usually do, and i'm also trying to write blues influenced songs as a result, which seems to be working at this point, but i haven't totally adapted to it. maybe you could atleast try to write something your not used to, like jazz maybe

oh wait, thats right, according to someone i cant be a blues player, after all i'm just 15 (sarcasm intended)

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riley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGTfDf4b5oE

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......but again it isn't about where you are from but rather life's experience which formulates your creative output........

Does the definition of the words.....Perhaps....Yet....strike a certain context...
It means maybe... not today but maybe tomorrow.

Had you not taken that phrase so literally you might have seen the double entendre...

As the " You cannot play the blues, it is a statement that when taken to someone much older and I certainly didn't mean me is a bit comical. I was flashing back to having said something similar to an older musician many years back and a similar response was given.

It's unfortunate that some of you cannot differentiate between sarcasm and an actual dis.
Not every word is to be taken at face value.

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"C'est parti mon Kiki "