Re: Tips for someone who took a 6 month break and is changing fie
Your post caught my eye for a couple of reasons. Firstly because I too “took a break” and then came back to music. The excuse that I use for my 23 YEAR hiatus is that I went to Kazakhstan, to Tengiz to be exact for a year. I went to Kazakhstan to work and just didn’t/ couldn’t bring my instruments, guitar and mandolin along w8th me. After that year I just didn’t play anymore. I’m not too sure why not. Maybe it was I was afraid that it was all gone. Maybe life just got in the way or maybe it was that I had made my passion, playing bluegrass, into work by pressing myself too hard. That was back in 1993 and things were very, very different in that part of the world. It was an experience that I wouldn’t take a million dollars for, but then again, I also wouldn’t give you a nickel to do it again. As to the break, don’t worry too much about it. it’s all still there inside you. I was shocked when I decided to resume my musical journey two years ago. It is coming back to me much, much more than I anticipated. No, I’m not back to where I was and at age 76, I probably never will be, but I’m having fun. You just have to wake up that muscle memory a bit. Oh yes, unfortunately the bad habits come back too.
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