Don't believe for a minute that I thought you were gone for good.
Just in case I didn't annoy you, I will remind you that I posted this at the end of one of my posts in this thread:
EDIT: ANYONE and/or I can think all sorts of wrong stuff about what's occurring, as long as we DO good things that need to happen to make GOOD sounds.
People that have had trouble with their playing (and whether they label it "focal dystonia" or whether they choose to not label it), if I start touching on the topic, some of them occasionally become a bit annoyed, because they think I don't understand it. I've actually suffered from it, but not for extended periods of time. I've had times when my mouth would quiver and - believe this or not - I began to itch all over when commencing practice sessions... These symptoms were years ago, and they would come and go, but they would always come when I was really trying to concentrate on what I was doing physically, instead of concentrating on the sounds that I was pursuing.... which (candidly) is probably the reason why I eschew delving too deeply into the mechanics and the so-called science of producing music. Put a different way, I do really (really) well when I concentrate on the what, and I start stumbling and falling when I concentrate on the how.
