Red Henry
That’s right. Usually when I’m picking, by myself or with others, I have a good excuse if I need one: “I’m out of practice.” Well, these last five days left no one (including me) out of practice. We just got through a looong weekend of picking and visiting with family and friends in the mountains of Northeast Georgia, and we might have played 30 or 40 hours in 5 days. All of us (including me) are IN PRACTICE!
There’s no way to get in practice except by playing. You don’t have to play for 10 hours in a row, but you do need to play some every day. And the more you play, the better practice you’re in. One innocent person (a well-known bluegrass banjo player, in fact) once tossed off a line: “All the GREAT banjo players never practice!” — to which John Hedgecoth, a notably experienced and intelligent banjo player we know, said, “Yeah, right! They never practice, they just PLAY all the time!”
We played and played this weekend, and we got in practice. If YOU play and play, YOU get in practice. So what’s YOUR excuse?
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