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Ron.M -> G.R.M.D (Nov. 21 2006 14:47:21)
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Or Guitar Related Mood Disorder..[:D]
Something that sonikete said about how one's feeling of well-being tends to be influenced by how one's guitar playing is going made me think of this..
If you had to go to your Doctor and say that you are addicted to something that is making you spend a lot of time on your own, sometimes causing friction with your partner or family, is responsible for mood swings, is resulting in obsessive behaviour, causing you to repeat the same actions over and over again, is making you somewhat reclusive and unsociable and sometimes interferes with your work...well, he'd be pretty concerned!
Yet I spoke to a Flamenco Guitar Student a while back who happened to be a qualified and working Doctor and he was complaining of the same symptoms himself!
I'm not talking about professionals here, who would have every reason to feel down if they were not playing well.
Just us amateurs.
It's funny how finally managing to crack a difficult little passage of alzapua or something can brighten your whole mood and outlook on life and make you walk with a spring in your step, being pleasant and understanding to everybody.
Then the bad times when you record something and play it back and hear how bloody awful it is and feel like giving up.
You then walk around like a depressed ogre on a short fuse, shouting at the kids and kicking the cat! [:D]
The most interesting thing of all is that nobody is even listening to, or criticising the playing except yourself.
It's crazy!
The effort/return ratio is extremely poor and the end result for a lot of us has no financial value... in fact we pay out a lot of money on guitars, dvds, cds, strings etc for the privilage of being able to torture ourselves more.
Are we sick?
cheers
Ron
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