A lot of posts I make on this blog are about guitar. I'm halfway sorry about this one because I feel guilty for subjecting the class to more stories about guitar. However, I did actually have a problem a few months ago, trying to learn how to play a song.
That song was Creeping Death, a now ancient song by a fledgling band at the time, Metallica. I had been playing with a friend of mine, and he had figured out how to play it. So I asked him "How did you do that?" He smiled back and said it wasn't hard, I could probably learn it by the end of the week.
Well that's what I tried to do. I worked for hours a day trying to figure it out. YouTube Videos, playing with the song, playing very slow, l even tried listening to it all day to absorb it by osmosis, nothing worked.
Finally, by sheer luck and determination I got it. I don't know if this counts, but I was so tired by the end of the week I got sloppy, lifting my hand when I was supposed to be palm muting. This gave the desired sound, and it was like a light bulb went off in my brain.
Not sure if that counts as me solving it or my subconscious solving it.
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