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!