Yo, Richard, you know the old saying, "when life hands you lemons, make lemonade," right?

Now would be a great time to delve into Band in a Box a bit more, song layouts, composition, etc. all the "other" things we often bypass or ignore when our instrument is in our hands and playable.

Consider also the use of a keyboard of any type, that can be worked with one hand.

Good time to expand on the Music Theory and Ear Training processes as well.

A chance to refocus on the "original instrument," the human voice.

And, as already mentioned, the Slide Guitar.

The time will fly and soon your finger will be healed.

And, as I discovered several years ago when the flesh-eating bacteria darn near took me out, a month in the hospital and several operations, followed by quite a long recuperative time, I found myself passing the time by *mentally* practicing, remapping the guitar neck and the keyboards from different standpoints than I'd previously addressed, looking for things new to me and at least being able to memorize a few new tricks so as to be better able to attempt to play them when the time came, actually served to improve my small arsenal of musical tricks.

For the guitarist, a wounded fretboard hand represents a great time to work out the advanced fingerpicking patterns with the other hand, all the various forms derived from TIMA, etc.

And I also found out what it was like to be "hungry" to play again, once the day came...


--Mac

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