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estebanana -> RE: after 12 months healing I can start playing again (Jan. 18 2023 12:24:06)
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Marduk,
You’ve had a terrible time of it. David Serva my old friend and teacher broke both his wrists and continued playing. He was riding his bike down a hill and got out of control, as I remember it was Spring 2000. He had a metal bar with screws going into his arm and the bone holding it all together. It took about 6 months to get healed enough to begin to play. Oddly enough we met in a Sevilla because his wife was working on an academic grant to do genealogy work on Gitana family connections- he had a lot of time to sit and think and I asked him to give me guitar lessons even though his wrist was still not in playing condition. I told him he could still analyze and talk and that was good enough.
We started lessons a few days later. He said put the cejilla on the forth fret and he showed me some very elementary solea falsetas to begin with. I asked him about Diego del Gastor’s brother, known as El Mellizo, that got David off showing me a hand full of his falsetas. After lesson four or five, ten days later or so of some painful playing David called me and said he’d had a breakthrough. He was very excited and said “I got my sound back.” He was worried he’d never be able to get his touch back.
Eventually he managed to rebuild his technique, but there were some things he couldn’t do the same, for example the falsetas in his Alegrias. He rearranged and reworked them until he was happy. He said it made him rethink everything in terms of more economical playing.
We used to go out to bars and he’d play for singers, amateurs and professionals. After he’d play awhile I’d go buy us beers and get ice from the bartender so he could bring down the swelling in his wrist. But watching him retrain himself to play was interesting, it’s in your head, not your hand. Your attitude and your brain can coax a lot out of your hands. I know you can do it, step by step. You can get it back, because it in your beautiful brain.
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