So, it looks like I've hit another brick wall with my playing. I've been practicing 2-4 hours a day and have about 10 things I'm constantly working on. Three or four grooves, half a dozen fills and three songs.
I have fleeting moments where the practice is paying off but then I go on these extended downhill slides where I can no longer play the stuff that I could play a week ago.
For example I reached two goals about month ago (one was Immigrant Song and the other was the two main grooves of a song called In The Meantime by Helmet) I was playing them every day for about a week focusing on getting them as clean as possible and then that was it, one day I sat down and could now no longer play them in time or at tempo. It's been three weeks now of sitting down and not being able to play them.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I don't know if it's a mental block, I don't know if I'm bored with playing the same things over and over again and I need to move on to some new stuff even though a lot of what I'm working on isn't as squared away as I'd like it to be.... I don't know if I just burned my right foot out working on two fairly bass drum heavy songs so much.
I've tried to slow things back down and just play along to the metronome at a slower tempo but even that is sloppy and out of time.
Has anyone else had this issue before and if so what did you do to overcome it?
I have fleeting moments where the practice is paying off but then I go on these extended downhill slides where I can no longer play the stuff that I could play a week ago.
For example I reached two goals about month ago (one was Immigrant Song and the other was the two main grooves of a song called In The Meantime by Helmet) I was playing them every day for about a week focusing on getting them as clean as possible and then that was it, one day I sat down and could now no longer play them in time or at tempo. It's been three weeks now of sitting down and not being able to play them.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I don't know if it's a mental block, I don't know if I'm bored with playing the same things over and over again and I need to move on to some new stuff even though a lot of what I'm working on isn't as squared away as I'd like it to be.... I don't know if I just burned my right foot out working on two fairly bass drum heavy songs so much.
I've tried to slow things back down and just play along to the metronome at a slower tempo but even that is sloppy and out of time.
Has anyone else had this issue before and if so what did you do to overcome it?