stuff in here but I cannot type stuff in here. Plugging my full sized keyboard into the phone isn't working, but I can speak the blog post in.
I've been practicing the guitar out of several method books, recently, having had a miniature eureka(!) moment, of sorts, after which I started to watch television and practice at the same time. There is an absolute benefit to being able to pay attention to an external stimuli, like a TV show about true crimes, and to be practicing the material simultaneously. It totally disengages the two orbs of the brain from each other; in my opinion; as much of a brain surgeon as I am.
It was Nuno Bettencourt, I think, who was talking about some extremely (excuse the pun) difficult riff that he said took him "3 movies" to learn because, yes; he would just mechanically repeat the phrase, taking it in different sized chunks, throughout the duration of, in this example, 5 hours of motion pictures...
Above: How much do I love the clock on my wall? Enough to have made replicate earrings, so I can take it everywhere I go!!
I am like a musician reborn, having been able, with considerable effort, throw a binary switch in my brain and practice like Nuno.
I might add to this post if I can solve the keyboard dilemma...
I think I've had this issue before and I have solved it by bringing up the blogger interface through the Chrome browser and not through the app which is the blogger app but which does not allow me to plug a huge keyboard into the phone through an adapter and type away but if I visit the site using Chrome...
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