Sloppy fretting

I haven't posted in a while.

I was in Wales for two months and did manage to keep up my practicing there, but with less regularity than at home.

I was practicing the other day, working on Ode to joy in fact, and I realized that I am not as attentive to my fretting as I should be. I find that with nobody listening that I can sometimes fret a note pretty far from the metal. Anyway, I decided to really concentrate on fretting things carefully and was amazed at how much nicer several pieces sounded.

It's a fairly obvious point, but it just highlighted the importance of vigilance in my practicing.