I know I’ve mentioned that one of the things I enjoy doing is playing guitar. I play electric guitar and I mostly play rhythm guitar. When I go to the local blues jam that’s all I play, rhythm. Most of the time, when I’m offered a solo slot I pass on it. I prefer to just stick with rhythm.
While on the one hand I would say playing rhythm guitar is just easier, on the other hand I have to say that it is not quite as easy as you think it is. If you get too much of the rest of the group wandering all over with the rhythm and pace of the piece you’re playing, or supposed to be playing, then you may be the only thing holding that sound together. None of that is why I prefer to play rhythm guitar.
I prefer to play rhythm guitar because, musically, I have nothing to say. To me, if you are going to play lead guitar you really need to have something to say, a story to tell. I don’t have anything to say, musically, anyway.
I haven’t really had much to say here on this site either. It isn’t that there haven’t been a lot of things happening. There have been. I don’t feel that every little thing needs to be reported on. Thus the huge gaps between posts. Of course moving house again this year certainly hasn’t helped.
Things are settling down again and I am getting a bit back into those things that might have been worth commenting on so hopefully I will get back into posting things again.