Thursday, August 21, 2014

Strumming

I had sabbatical in the spring and then summer break, so lots of time for guitar, working out, research, hanging around the house in my jammies.

But now I'm teaching again in a few days. I'm looking forward to the class, Statistical Natural Language Processing, but I'm not looking forward to less guitar and exercise.

I think my latest epiphany is a "re-epiphany": don't strum at an angle. I think I tend to slump over the guitar which leads to sloppy strumming. I just notice the strumming doesn't sound so good, but I don't know why. It's always the bad habits though, the ones we think we work ourselves out of only to find them back again.