You are spot on here. It is a difficult marriage between the practice/repetition required to gain mastery over a skill, and the spontaneity required to create something that goes beyond rote practice. This is part of why I regularly switch what tuning I keep my main playing guitars in, every few months moving to a different tuning. I am still getting the finger practice in but it is a fresh game for my mind to play each time. Love the metaphor of the Christmas tree, and also that is a good reminder that a dead tree is actually a boon to nature just as much as a live tree (and sometimes more so - dead trees and snags are vital habitat!). I really enjoyed this :) Carl "Totally Not A Bot" Gnash / @carlgnash

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