Practicing when sick

[Ben Thorpe]

Been sick for the last week, so I haven’t been on the website in quite a while, but I have been finding it more difficult to practice. It’s way too mentally exhausting practicing any advanced techniques or revise theory. Any good simple practicing exercises? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Hi mate, hope you get well soon! Practicing different chord shapes like inversions is a nice little exercise! Or maybe see how many ways you can ascend or descend your scales!

 

[John Tierney]

Hey Ben I am just getting over being sick and tbh take a break and then when your better come back to it. Just thinking on what to do in scale patterns or what the artist is doing, you will see some (not much) but some improvement.

 

[idssdi]

I’m hoping you’ll get better soon! Depending on how sick I am I just play and don’t really practice and when I’m mentally exhausted I just stop playing and go and watch netflix or youtube

 

[Guest]

Hey I’m sick right now I can’t play my electric anyway because I need new strings. But I usually just don’t play or just watch videos to refresh my mind.

 

[Guest]

Also there’s this thing called the little freter it’s like 30 20 dollars. It’s pretty cool you can practice chord shapes it’s only 6 frets. But it’s something I should get and I recommend

 

[Jen Hapke]

I’ve been sick last week, too. At some days I couldn’t play longer than 10 minutes without getting a headache. I did the normal stuff, some scales, nothing I had to think about. Just stop if you are feeling exhausted. It’s good if you pick up the guitar because you don’t loose the feeling for it but if you practice being exhausted your playing will probably not really benefit from it.

 

[Jak Angelescu]

Take a break man, you won’t go to jail for it unless you have a big gig/audition coming up, focus on getting better.

 

[Ben Thorpe]

Lol, cheers everyone

 

[Calvin Phillips]

yeah, I’d just put the guitar down man. When you are sick you tend to not really be focused anyways and chances are you’ll forget most of what you are doing when you feel better. So might as well save yourself the first take and just rest. lol

 

[John Tierney]

Also its worth mentioning that if your really sick (colds you might weasel your way out of this) but if really sick ie) flu you can actually damage your guitar. The bacteria making you sick come in contact on your hands and if you play hard you therefore transfer them to the guitar and this screws up your sound like do you eat Cheetos then play w/o washing your hands?