Unfortunate

[Elton Breaux]

Been making great progress and yesterday playing my last baseball game of the season i go and break my hand smh. Small speed bump but ill be counting the days down until i can jam again. Any suggestion of what i could do to stay progressing without actually playing?

 

[Ana Psuturi]

Oh man I feel your pain. Was same way after I injured my hand on volleyball. I suggest you trying some ear training exercises and also digging into theory stuff that doesn’t always require instrument.

 

[Jak Angelescu]

If it was your left hand you can always focus on rhythm exercises. Quite literally, do everything you would ever do except don’t use your left hand. You can still practice string skipping, speed picking, Sweeping, and rhythm exercises. If it’s your right hand do everything legado. It literally will be an excellent time (sorry to say), to build-up the strength in your left hand. There is a way that you can start legado exercises without even picking. I’m hoping for a speedy recovery!

 

[Calvin Phillips]

get guitar pro, and start tabbing shit out.. you’ll realize how quick your ear links up the patterns. I did this when I didn’t h ave my guitar for a month before I knew theory, and wrote most of my songs that way. And although I changed a lot of things up, the sounds I was trying to achieve are essentially the same as I originally wrote them. Just some stuff was a little too impossible to play at the time lol. But the program is really good.

 

[Sayonil Mitra]

spend some time to learn other things about guitar which you normally did not study maybe…new scales, some music theory…or may be how a guitar is painted recover fast man

 

[Alan Celis]

yup i happened to break my right radius(forearm) when i was just a newbie on guitar hahaha hope you recover, and get guitar pro, it helps ALOT when writting songs, i think that program was how i got into songwritting

 

[idssdi]

Ooh man that sucks
You could start looking into some very hardcore music theory or like Jak says practice the things the hand that is still healthy is supposed to do. Like Calvin said you can also try to mess around with programs like guitar pro and wrote songs in there or something like that.
Hope this helps and your back playing soon!

 

[Calvin Phillips]

Alan it did the same for me. I just made up a lot of impossible sweeps there so I had to change some stuff when I play it now, but almost all my songs were originally written on that program. You have more freedom to chase the sounds you are trying to achieve, and you’re brain will make the connections so when you pick up the guitar.. you’ll have an easier way finding your path to the notes you wanna go to. It just does nothing theory wise, so if you were wanting to keep at the theory too, you’d just have to apply the scales into the songs you write, which is something I didn’t do at first but wish I did.