[Fong]

I don't want to blow my own trumpet, becuase I am not that good a guitar player, but I don't seem to have many problems creating on the guitar, most of the time.

I been playing every sunday for the past 6 months in a band situation and I would routinely write 6 or 7 different guitar "riffs" or Rhythm pieces for each session.

My 'technique' is to sit down with the guitar, and basically just randomly play s**t til I heard something that I liked, that piqued my interest. Then I would work on and expand, usualyl while the drummer was playing along, using the bass drums to fill a bit of the space of the guitar rhythm.

Thing is, went down their Sunday, I was late getting there, had been up for about 20 minutes when I arrived, and it was damn cold in there, with a horrible wind blowing on my back.

For the first 3 hours, I couldn't find a thing on the neck of the guitar, nothing I played sounded nice, it all felt old and tired. Fortunately I had a few rifffs from previous sessions I could use to muddle along with, but it wasn't a good session.

I will say that after about 3 hours, when I put me coat on and got a bit warmer, I did start to find some nice stuff again. But it was a waste of about 3 hours, and after I finally got to grips with it, the Bass and Drummer feel apart and started having the same mental block I had had at the start.


So has anyone got any tips for when you get stuck? I would like to be able to snap out of it in less then 3 hours to be quite honest.