Developed Habits

[JStraitiff]

I notice things about my playing that i find are kind of abnormal or unique to me all the time. One of them is that i rarely ever bend up except for on my highest strings. I almost always pull the string to bend rather than push up.

What kinds of habits have you guys developed that you think are unique to your playing?

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

Pulling down on the low strings makes sense because there's more room before you go off the fretboard

I just do the basic retard faces while soloing sometimes.

 

[JStraitiff]

haha vaigasm?

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

No, like...temporary autism.

 

[brutalslam]

I also make strange faces and sometimes hum weird noises

 

[Dayn]

Hmm... Well, I play in a classical position because I've always sat in my office chairs with arms. I often play with my guitar angled back along the neck axis as if I was laying on my back... because I love to lean back and recline in said office chairs. So I suppose that's what's really influenced my technique. It makes tapping easy, at least.

 

[Grimbold]

i do weird things with my tongue

also when playing REALLY fast (like upwards of 400 bpm) while sitting down my leg starts to twitch...

 

[ISRAFEL]

If someone is talking to me while I'm playing guitar, I sometimes whip out quick some blues licks as if their singing something and I'm backing them up...

 

[Fiction]

^



That is golden.

 

[Varcolac]

Apparently I flare my nostrils when I change position. This is true for every instrument: guitar, bass, cello, violin, ukulele. I even flare them when I change register on a tin whistle.

 

[dNate]

Well, a horrible habbit I have is that I will sometimes block myself from getting into a zone when writing. Sometimes I start writing and I start getting overwhelmed by how much time I am willing to put into writing something so I let my mind wander and I end up not playing anymore and it has, at times, cut a really good writing session short. It's a weird self sabotage thing that I really hope I can overcome.

Other than that I have in the past started drooling as I play. It used to happen more often than it does these days but it would happen if I was able to really concentrate on something I was playing.

 

[Trespass]

If I'm sitting down while playing, I'll rock back and forth if I'm really into it.

 

[ArkaneDemon]

I do the mouth thing pretty much always if the stuff I'm playing is semi-challenging. My mouth channels playing energy into my fingers, that must be it!

 

[celticelk]

If I'm sitting down while playing, I'll rock back and forth if I'm really into it.

I do that standing up. If I ever played gigs, it might be somewhat embarassing. In my practice room, nobody notices. Or at least that Ganesh statue is keeping quiet about it.

 

[K4RM4]

hmm, i think this qualifies as an odd practice habit;
I pretend i'm on stage rocking out to a sold out stadium....i do the head movents as though i'm looking out over the crowd and up to the nosebleeds. Sometimes i do it even if i'm just practicing maj/min scales, , i'm really into it when i'm playing covers and pretend as though i won a contest and got to jam on stage with whoever i'm covering.

But then my wife will come in and i get shy about my playing again and give her one of those "move along, nothing to see here" looks.