The Gift of Eggnition!

Eggnition is the start of it all.

It’s the genesis of the funk. The flash in the magic pan. The flow of neutronic action music-ward. It’s the barrel-rollin’ blast of the ‘in-the-know’ towards the ‘way to go!’.

All imitators leave the floor please – this is for elite troops only.

How many times have you truly, truly spent the time, energy, focus, drive, attention and brain-power harnessing the potential in your fingers and frontal lobe by simply gettin’ down to gettin’ DOWN…and practicing?! And I don’t mean practicing just to practice, I mean practicing just to PLAY! That’s eggnition! That’s where it all begins.

Without question, y’all, the press and onslaught of daily drudgeries have absolutely impacted our opportunities to go to ‘the woodshed’ and put some blood on the floor of our creative intentions. Whatever your bag, it takes no less than intersteller attention these days to sling out from the gravitational greed of need, and urgency, to break INTO the place where your legend is born. The cradle of chops. The tune-tattoo chair. Where tonal expression burns in like computer chips on the Groove-Mother’s mother board.

What’s it take to get there? You just gotta DO it, yo! Go through it. This week. This day. MAKE it happen. Rub ten minutes out of your planner and let it flow through the cracks, downstairs….into the studio…into the glow of amps; the cocoon trance of Travis-picking chordal dance; the hum of bucker’s screams and stings. Rattle the bones of overtones! Raise the specters of song and vectors of long-denied, unsatisfied desires…. ‘til the moanin’ cows of duty moo for being milked again.

For beginners on the guitar journey, start with just ten minutes a day. And don’t say,”oh, I gotta…”. Say, “Ohoooooh! I GET ta…!!” Fingerdance. And after some passes on the floor, try some NEW moves. Throw a bend in you’ve never felt, or mastered. Release yourself to let the joy of sound be your fundamental frequency; your perfect pitch. Then work it, baby, work it! In the environment of toil there thrives development. As the cells of a beehive honeycomb are six-sided, so let those six strings spill sweetness as yet unattained into the ruse of your usual. You’ll never be the same.

Eggnition is decision. You must DECIDE to act. Act now. Do it NOW. You can find the time. You MUST find the time. For when you feel eggnition rising….there’s no denying…it is time.

Meetcha in the honeycomb. ;-)