Well I've been playing for awhile now, occasionly posting here and asking the odd question but mainly just reading all the good advice, when I first bought my guitar for the first few weeks you couldn't drag me off the thing, but slowly I started to lose heart, I wanted to be able to do everything yesterday but nothing seemed to coming together.
So the guitar started to feel more and more lonesome as those practice sessions became shorter and shorter and less frequent, although they never stopped, I still couldn't read enough magazine's, books and browse guitar websites.
I had experimented with allsorts, rythm, lead, blue's, rock, slide the list go's on and on, but one thing I really wanted to be able to do was play sweet child of mine, and although the practices were getting shorter and shorter and I didn't seem to be enjoying it as much anymore, when I picked her up (the guitar) I always gave sweet child a glance.
Now the sweet child of mine that I have been playing just never sounded right, until today that is, yes I played sweet child and really did sound sweet, so what changed.
Well to my mind there was one simple transition and that is I approached it with a relaxed attitude, I was not going to get all frustrated and end up putting the guitar down becouse it just seemed to hard, in the past I have always sat down to practice and always felt tense in body and mind, today I wasn't going to practice I was just going to play.
So I put the guitar strap over my neck, stood up, let my shoulders drop into a natural position not all tense and rigid as things have always been, tilted the guitar neck up slighty and just started slowly fingering though those now familier finger placements it felt ten times better, so I let it go increased the tempo (by now my legs were in true rock god V position) and I was ripping through sounding better than ever before.
There's got to be some logic in this and I'm not saying standing will work for everyone, I still don't believe that is the reason anyway, it was my relaxed state of mind, this led to a relaxed body and relaxed playing.
So I just thought I would share this firstly becouse I was really happy with my guitar again for the first time in awhile and secondly in the hope that somebody might be reading who had similar problems to me and give it a go.
Sorry it's long, Cheers
Mike.