Guitar Epiphany

Man it's been a while. One of those moments of clarity when something just hits your thick noggin and you go "Whoa" like Neo. A moment of inspiration which pushes you to exceed your limits, escape that comfort zone of complacency and grow in your humanity. Something which just clicks in your head randomly and you just know something. "I know kung-fu..."
"Show me." Such was the case this morning, as I was practicing on my guitar. I've played for several years, and I'd like to think I'm decent at it, but recently one of my goals was to dive into scales deeper, improvisation, and learning some new licks.

For quite some time now, I've wanted to learn a little guitar intro on a song from one of my favorite bands, Salvador, which incidentally I got to see their concert when they came to town last Saturday. Awesome. I must have heard the song a million times. And Wednedsay I sat down with one of the guitarists in my band and we were trying to figure it out. It was slow but the general idea was to walk down from C minor to G with some technique thrown in of course. Unfortunately, there was little progress.

Well this morning after eating breakfast with some friends (at a Mexican hole-in-the-wall for some massive breakfast burritos), running some errands, etc. I sat down and picked the guitar up to practice my fingering, and I played that intro in my head a couple times, and tried it out on the guitar. Slow-going, and then tried again couple times and then it sounded more and more like what it was supposed to be. Epiphany I tell you. Do this here and there and I think I got it. I couldn't believe it. I'm now more motivated to expand my horizons and leaping from the plateau which I've been for a while. Share this joy with me gentle viewer. May you have that epiphany that you are looking for. Peace.