Does anyone ever shout at themsleves?

[Orphan John]

Maybe it's just me - lol. But do you ever find yourself telling yourself off for not doing good enough? For instance i was just having a little play of 'Nothing Else Matters' - a tune i have played countless times before - and for some reason my fingers were fumbling over every chord. Normally i play it without really thinking about it, but today i just can't play the thing. The more i concentrated the worse i got, i stopped playing when i realised i had started actually cursing myself and telling myself off.

Makes me wonder how often i do this without noticing and whether anyone else does it as well :D

[james]

happens to the best of us....i usually find myself throwing my pick across the room only to stand up and walk over to it and try the song again.

[RobertM]

Well John first of all hello....You might know this you might
not , many guitar players I would hope agree with me. Anytime
since ive been playing...if I had the notes and structure in
my head but just couldnt seem to nail it right , I would leave
it ....go play something else...came back in a couple of days
and to my suprise....nail it np....this has happened to me and
other guitar players I know many times....in fact , there have
been rough times throughout the years where I have had to
sell my gear , and go 6 months or so without playing anything
but an accoustic....only to find out when i bought that new
les paul I was flying up and down the fretboard playing everything
that had me aggrivated....just a suggestion. Cheers.

[Zeppelin_Maniac]

I yell at myself all the time. Mainly for thinking about other stuff while I'm trying to play.

[nitemare]

yep that happens... I rarely think about something else when practicing songs but I must force myself to concentrate when warming up or learning scales :)
And sometimes I scream out when trying to buil up strength or agility and my fingers hurt bad :)

[snapperenthusiast]

I don't yell at myself, i usually just get depressed, wallow in my misery, then i take a 10-15 minute break, listen to something completely different from what i am trying to play and then i eat some chocolate. Thats when the sugar rush kicks in and ITS PUNCH-UP TIME!

Sometimes i can get obsessed about a particular lick and play until i get it right, even if that takes me into the morning. Once i learn the lick however, i don't finish the song...:confused:

[Orphan John]

Thanks everyone for letting me know i'm no the only one to do this kind of thing. I asked my girl today if she has ever heard me do it and apparently i do it quiet often, but mainly only when i am been super critical of myself.

Just as well i'm not in a band playing rythm and backing vocals. I would sound and look like a mad geezer with turettes (probably wrongly spelled)

Robert - I know what you mean if you leave it alone for a week or two and then come back to it and it just seems to flow with no problems. But when it comes to a song that you know fine well you could play it while hanging upside down in a tree it's really frustrating.

[Steve K]

er no john....you must be a pshyco



just kidding I do it occasionaly (or maybe I just only notice occasionaly)