Ever had a senior moment while playing

Bo Legg · Posted 13 Apr 2011 10:50 am

Just here recently I find myself playing a ride in Bb and winding up in the key of A and it takes me about one or two more bars to figure out what happened. I keep telling the band I'm trying out some new jazz licks. I don't think they're buying it.

Mark Dershaw · From: Arizona and Ohio

Bb to A is an understandable transgression. Are you jammin with horn players or what?! For me there have been plenty of times when I just completely forgot what key I was supposed to be in. Nowadays I do chalk it up to a "senior moment". I think when I was young it was more like an "alchohol/drug/looking at the pretty girl on the dance floor moment"

Richard Sinkler · From: aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana

Once in a while. Sometimes I get to the point where I just have to take my hands off the guitar and re-group. It's really embarassing. Embarassed

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Bo Legg · Posted 13 Apr 2011 12:28 pm

Mark it seems when I play in a band with a keyboard player we play a lot in Eb and Bb.
These southern rock guitar players want to play a lot in B. I don't know why they like that key. Occasionally I'll forget and find myself drifting into C.
It wasn't an asteroid that done away with the dinosaurs, it was a senior moment.

Mark Dershaw · From: Arizona and Ohio

Actually I've been playing with a female singer/songwriter who runs a capo up and down the neck until she finds a position that suits her voice. Makes for some "out of the ordinary" keys to play out of.

Brett Lanier · From: Madison, TN

I set up my left knee levers pretty much the same for both necks because sometimes I zone out and forget which neck I'm playing.

Dave Hopping · From: Aurora, Colorado

I've been having senior moments since junior high school!

Papa Joe Pollick · From: Swanton, Ohio

Heard it said,the 2nd thing to go is your memory,dunno..
Bo,that cartoony is funny,don't care who ya are.. Laughing

Ben Lawson · From: Brooksville Florida

What was the question?

Billy Tonnesen · From: R.I.P., Buena Park, California

Yes, really had to go "Pee" in the middle of a set.

Jim Priebe · From: Queensland, Australia - R.I.P.

With increasing regularity ! We call them "Deme's" (Dimentia Moments) but it's all good. Remember you have never made a mistake (or bum note) 'till the next note. A kool 'next note' converts the mistakes into passing notes or some cool momentary dissonance.
Re. the key of B saga. I read dots but not that sharp. Once backed a singer who's originals were in B. Got sick of it and told the guys do it in C - she won't know - WRONG - she picked it straight away (professionally after the song was done). "Seemed a bit high for me" - I quickly blamed the south west wind and it was before lunch - neither went over that well.
No problems - it was a freebie show anyway!
Priebs

Bill Myrick · From: Pea Ridge, Ar. (deceased)

"Senior Hearing" is a bigger problem for me--I've got to where B-C-D-E-G all sound the same a lot of times. Thankful for hand signals but a lot don't use them. - Crying or Very sad

Jack Dougherty · From: Spring Hill, Florida, USA

I believe there are discounts for seniors Laughing

Barry Blackwood · Posted 14 Apr 2011 7:38 am

At my age, my life is a senior moment! Shocked

Jack Ritter · From: Enid, Oklahoma, USA

If we are lucky to live long enough, we will all get there. You ever strayed into a different number? Wow!
Jack
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Ronnie Boettcher · From: Brunswick Ohio, USA

My few glitches come when playing a song, especially a slow ballad, I drift into the tune of another song that is very close-sounding. The other is when I try to go up or down on the neck,(octaves), I forget where I am at, and sometimes do not hit the right fret. I don't know if 71 qualifies for senior moment, but I think i'm there. Still feel 30 though.
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Terry Winter · From: Saskatchewan, Canada

I have done the same thing as Ronnie....as long as at he end of my rambling I come back to the same key at the end, it seems to work although the rest of the band is scratching their heads. Terry

Gary Watson · From: North Carolina, USA

I have noticed that I can be on a ride, on interstate "F"......and be riding up to "HughyLand", and on the way, all of a sudden, I take a "dirt road" is that one of those "senior moments", or do I just get distracted by all the pretty chords on the way? I sure do qualify for the "Senior Moment Theory" age wise. Laughing

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Bo Legg · Posted 14 Apr 2011 3:19 pm

The real senior moments are like when you get to a gig and you discover you brought your electric fan but you forgot your amp.
I catch myself on the way to a gig stopping after I've only gone about a block and rechecking the equipment to see if I've forgotten anything.
I'm always forgetting to load my seat and have to sit on a tool box or something else uncomfortable.

Paul Sutherland · From: Placerville, California

Last night at rehearsal I tried to play a part written by the fiddle player and I couldn't make sense of it. Then I realized I was looking at the neck as if it was C6th; third string at the 12th fret should be a C, right? But I was playing the E9 neck.

Rick Collins · From: Claremont , CA USA

Just what is a "senior moment"?
I think I use to have "junior moments" (nocturnal emissions).
Is it anything like this? And, does it ever last for more than a moment?

Jason Hull · Posted 14 Apr 2011 4:42 pm

I've had just about every kind of moment while playing music! To quote Professor Lockhart, "This is just like magic!"

Larry Haas · From: Morganton, North Carolina USA

I can relate to this "senior moment" real good. When I hit the wrong chord, I'll do a bar slide up the neck and it seems to hide the mistake. Now days I do a lot of bar sliding. I had one fellow say to me that it made cold chills run up his back when I did the slide. It made cold chills run up mine also but not for the same reason.
Larry

Jack Willis · From: California, USA

This just about the most hilarious subject I have come across in the Forum....
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Jack Willis · From: California, USA

Do you ever find yourself trying to open your front door with your car remote? Me neither......
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