As a classical guitar player, I can identity exactly. Sometimes you get so involved with making sure that you change positions quickly enough, or your left hand fingers the frets before your right hand gets there, to always be thinking two measures ahead, to play lightning fast sliding chord positions and try to keep the same momentum...and it can sometimes make you detest hearing that musical piece ever again. The fun you had when you heard someone else play it is gone, and you realize what an ordeal it is to create music. Of course, in my Celtic playing, I really don't mind, but when I play classical, I have this unknown need to play accurately. Duke Ellington used to say "It's not important how accurate you are, but how much feeling you put into it." But sometimes, technical "mistakes" can ruin the feeling. But then again didn't Seamus Ennis himself say 'First you must learn the grip..."?

--Mbo