Need help getting inspired again

Losing your drive sucks. I got it bad once but suddenly I just decided that I really wanted to have the ability to play a musical instrument. It also helped when I found a band who's style I liked a lot and I wanted to play their songs. That's what really got me back into it.

Yes...it does suck. My callouses are almost non-existant now. I think I probably feel the need to play coming back, hence the return to guitarnoise.com 8)

Perhaps you were too "diligent?" Practice, if it starts to feel like work rather than pleasure, will make you lose your drive. Instead of scales & exercise, try learning a song you love - even if it is too difficult for you.

Make it fun - go listen to music that inspires you for a week. Don't pick up your guitar during that week, just "get into" & listen to lots of good music. Then pick up the guitar and see how you feel.

Personally, I "miss" my guitar if I haven't picked it up in a few days.

the cure is to play and jam with others.
hearing a song come together by several players is inspiring.

I think that could very well be the case. I used to just feel incomplete when I wasn't playing (much to the dismay of my wife!).

Hey Aaron

I know the feeling! I started last August and for reasons I have yet to fathom I just put the guitar down just before Christmas and didn't pick it up again.

I went camping with some friends and one took a guitar with him. Mucking about over that weekend inspired me to pick it up again and I've now bought a cheap electro acoustic and have started again.

Of course, a huge driving factor for me is Pink Floyd!

Collin

+1 to what FenderBender said.

If your practice is just "technical" it will get boring very quickly.
The trick is to work on songs along with working on your chops.

Read some of the tips at
http://www.stetina.com/tips.html
they have always motivated me.

The practice varied across a wide-spectrum from technical to just jamming. Another "distraction" thrown in to the mix was the birth of our first kiddo. I think maybe I should learn some nursery rhymes or something!