I believe the key is to involve yourself in music to the point that you eagerly look forward to the next day in anticipation of learning something new you did not know when you went to bed last night.

About 6 months ago I started to get into a funk since I was playing mostly bluegrass music on the banjo and guitar. I turned 70 two weeks ago. One morning got my bass out, which I could play but only the simple 1-4-5 progressions for bluegrass and some memorized blues lines. That day I decided to learn something new I never could do before and that was to read music. Now I can actually play some blues, jazz and rock by reading the actual music notation out of the book I am using to study out of, not using tab. You cannot imagine how happy I was to accomplish that. Granted it is after playing the piece of music starting at 60 BPM and working up to 100 and after playing the piece perhaps 20 times in a row, BUT I am doing it.

Not getting better is like eating the same thing for breakfast each day for 50 years. It's not going to get any better until you change your diet.

Mikke is right about breaking out of your box. BlueAttitude hit it on the mark when he said to load up some different styles you have never used before in BIAB and start playing with them.

We all have our stories about our ‘funk’ dilemmas but the one thing we all musicians have in common is that when we get outside our comfort zone and strive to make it a reachable goal, our built-in music abilities get just a little then they were the day before.

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