You take the self-deprecation too far sometimes (you're a fine player, whether you know it or not), but this is really funny, Grea. The kind of thing one puts in one's forum signature. Well done.
Way kind, Mr L, but my brain is one that likes to linger and, well, mull over things in detail. Meanwhile music goes by quickly.
So it's rare that I'm thinking of the next note while playing the current one, which I understand is the Zen zone. I'm usually mentally playing catchup and tidying up whatever train wreck I happen to be inadvertently concocting ...
Josh, nothing wrong with not being a groover if that's who you are. Groove is in vogue, but it was a mere, um, 40 years ago (yipes!) that prog was popular with the masses and many drummers were approaching the playing in a more cerebral way rather than the funky, groovy, get-down-baby approach that's everywhere today. It's okay to be white and nerdy ... or in the words of Weird Al ...
I edit Wikipedia
I memorised "Holy Grail" really well
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
I got a business doing web sites
When my friends need some code who do they call?
I do HTML for them all
Even made a homepage for my dog!
Yo! Got myself a fanny pack
they were having a sale down at the GAP
Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
POP POP! Hope no one sees me gettin' freaky!