I can't stop

I am finding myself using every spare minute to fiddle with my guitars, and look for new stuff to learn. It kind of reminds me of s sports analogy. There are many things that are hard at first . . . hitting a baseball, shooting a basketball or snowboarding for example.

I have personally encountered periods of time where it seems like I just can't get any better, and for a period of time it becomes frustrating trying to improve. Perhaps you take a short break (a few days/weeks/months) and when you come back something seems to have stuck. Then all of a sudden you arereaping the benefits of trying to improve and whatever mental or physical block was impeding progress is suddenly gone.

I am having that with guitar. I used to look at tabs with all the individual fingerings and see some unintelligible code. I could push the string in the frets but I couldn't make musical sense of it. Well recently I have had some serious progress with music and guitar. I now hear the music in the song. I can faintly visualize how something is played by listening to it (not really enough to play by ear, but getting there), and when I look at those tabs now I can get the flow, and start to pick up music, songs.

Now I find myself reaching for my guitar all the time. Learning is awesome. Learning to rock is even better.