Re: Blocks and no progress
fwiw, the sudden 'what WAS that?' happens more often then you'd think. I've been playing for long enough to feel comfortable in a session, but when I first sit in with a new group (as opposed to a new session with my buddies in a new venue or with a new leader), I find that it takes me a while to find my equilibrium. I put it down to a need to refine my expectations rather than my own incompetence ... one session that I've been to 3 times now has what the leader calls a "circle of death" where everybody plays a jig, one after another, around the circle and twice now I've managed to stop the whole thing dead, once because I couldn't think of anything and the second because I missed the string when I went to play. Yet I'm planning to attend the same thing tomorrow despite feeling like I'll be run out on a rail. Perseverence (or idiocy, I haven't figured out which) does, I have to believe, pay off in the end.
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