Does your playing really suck sometimes?

Definitely. When people tell you to go to bed early and rest well before a gig, they arent joking. Sleep is really a vital part of how you perform with many different tasks, including making music.

Definitely. When people tell you to go to bed early and rest well before a gig, they arent joking. Sleep is really a vital part of how you perform with many different tasks, including making music.

So how does one explain Keith Richards? :?

So how does one explain Keith Richards? :?

Post-mortem, all rule are out the window.

So how does one explain Keith Richards?

In two ways:

1) The requirements for sleep greatly depend on the individual. There are known, and scientifically proven, cases of people who need only one or two hours a sleep every day without losing any skills.

2) The Stones are not exactly scared of creating myths about themselves. When Keith says he 'never sleeps' this could be taken with a few truckloads of salt.

The general point: everyone needs to get the ammount of sleep he needs before important events. A lack of sleep isn't concrete but relative: what might be enough for Keith may be not enough for me. So one should always try to get the ammount of sleep your body seems to want, regardless of how long others sleep. Do note that sleeping less then 45 minutes will not allow you to go through all stages in a standard sleep-cycle, and will not be of much benefit. So if you go to bed, make it atleast 45 minutes, and as long as you need.

It is unfortunate that North American society has lead us to take pride in "getting by" with as little sleep as possible and people seem to take pride in not sleeping. I have come to realize lately that I'm worse when I have little sleep that when I'm half drunk, and I mean worse at just about everything.

In any event it is something to think about in terms of performance levels not only with a guitar, but many, many tasks, and quality of life in general. Just posted it as food for thought.

Think I'll go practice Brahm's Lullaby now.

Keith Richards is special, he's got his living-undead Skeletor powers.

And Narn has a good point about sleep. Here in the US we're under a LOT of pressure to always be doing somthing with our time, that we shouldn't waste it, ect, ect. I find myself being overstretched quite often. Somtimes we need to just slow things down.

Somtimes we need to just slow things down.

Therein lies the answer to Keith Richards. He slowed down to such a degree he can get buy without sleep. If we spend 30% of our time sleeping it would only make sense that since Keith seems to be at least 50% slower than most people he should be able to avoid sleep entirely.

Wwwweeeeelllllllll IIIIIII mmmmmuuuuuusssssssttttt bbbbbeeeeee gggggggoooooiiiiiiinnnnngggggg!!!!!!!!! :lol:

Keith Richards truly does not sleep - he simply goes into an 8 hour coma

Does your playing really suck sometimes?

Yes.

I think that when it comes to Keith Richards, and even Slash who gets so drunk but still can play to a point. I think alot of these people have been playing guitar for so long they are no loger thinking about it, like they say you do something enouph you can do it in your sleep, but when you are learning something you need sleep and rest to absorb what you are learning. I know there are things I do at work everyday that I could do half asleep because I have done it for so long.

:D

often

My playing sucks all the time. haha!

-Dustin

So how does one explain Keith Richards? :?

Post-mortem, all rule are out the window.

LMAO! Anyone want to volunteer to tell Keith he's really dead and has been for decades? :shock: :D

He's decomposing some new music right now.