Toward the end of the gig last night, a guy in the audience brought me an Epi hollow body because they wanted to see it on stage..
It was pretty and I enjoy interacting with the audience, so I tuned it up, while the band decided to shift over to bossa Nova so that we could screw around with jazzy stuff.
I played a couple of major licks and then dropped into mixolydian as a great position to just riff... and when I hit the g-string, it turned out it was very flat... to the point that I actually questioned my fingering for just a second. But instinct kicked in and my hands automatically did the Hendrix thing to take a wrong note and slide it up a half step and it was completely in tune.
I ran some chromatics to avoid the issue while my brain was trying to figure out what had just happened.. but before I made any logical decisions my left hand grabed the G tuner, it managed to twist it a half step all by itself and everything was back to normal.
Of course the interesting thing is my brain was still trying to figure out what went wrong and I was mentally debating how a freshly tuned string could move so much. I guarantee as a 25-year-old I would have thought about it the whole song and just avoided the g-string and not had a lot of fun
A surprisingly similar thing happened recently when I was leaving my house.. I drove out of our subdivision and was preparing to stop at the intersection of a major road.
As I was moving my foot to the brake, I managed to drop my water bottle where it locked in between both feet where I couldn't move either one to the brake.. Don't ask me how it found the one position in a million that blocked my feet, it just did.
So while I'm panicking trying to figure out how to stop the car before I roll into traffic, the car came screeching to a halt and I look down and see my right hand had grabbed the emergency brake and yanked it up without any thinking whatsoever. I was completely surprised.
So I'm reaching the age where I'm definitely forgetting more stuff but wonder if you guys have had any experience with autopilot taking over? Surprising but useful
It was pretty and I enjoy interacting with the audience, so I tuned it up, while the band decided to shift over to bossa Nova so that we could screw around with jazzy stuff.
I played a couple of major licks and then dropped into mixolydian as a great position to just riff... and when I hit the g-string, it turned out it was very flat... to the point that I actually questioned my fingering for just a second. But instinct kicked in and my hands automatically did the Hendrix thing to take a wrong note and slide it up a half step and it was completely in tune.
I ran some chromatics to avoid the issue while my brain was trying to figure out what had just happened.. but before I made any logical decisions my left hand grabed the G tuner, it managed to twist it a half step all by itself and everything was back to normal.
Of course the interesting thing is my brain was still trying to figure out what went wrong and I was mentally debating how a freshly tuned string could move so much. I guarantee as a 25-year-old I would have thought about it the whole song and just avoided the g-string and not had a lot of fun
A surprisingly similar thing happened recently when I was leaving my house.. I drove out of our subdivision and was preparing to stop at the intersection of a major road.
As I was moving my foot to the brake, I managed to drop my water bottle where it locked in between both feet where I couldn't move either one to the brake.. Don't ask me how it found the one position in a million that blocked my feet, it just did.
So while I'm panicking trying to figure out how to stop the car before I roll into traffic, the car came screeching to a halt and I look down and see my right hand had grabbed the emergency brake and yanked it up without any thinking whatsoever. I was completely surprised.
So I'm reaching the age where I'm definitely forgetting more stuff but wonder if you guys have had any experience with autopilot taking over? Surprising but useful
