Okay, so you may think I’ve been living under a rock for ages, but last night was my first time playing Rock Band®.
It was my buddy John’s birthday party.
At first my musical ego kicked in and said “no way am I going to play”. I said: “give me a real guitar and I’ll play the songs for real”.
As the night went on, eventually I decided to give it a shot. It was a lot of fun, but boy did it ever make me feel like complete musical moron!
I sucked!
I had a hell of a time turning off my musical brain. I was hearing a D chord, then a G chord, then C etc. I was hearing the notes and the chords. I sure wasn’t thinking green, red, green, green, orange!
It was pretty funny. Here I was the professional musician, teacher and author, getting schooled by everyone!
After sucking really bad for a few songs. I finally figured out what would work for me. Since I couldn’t shut off my musical brain, I went with songs I had never heard before and bingo—I wasn’t doing too bad.
I got to ask: “has anyone else experienced this?”
It was fun, but give me my real six-string!