What is a skill you had but lost?
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CHEROKEEE
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...hmm, I dont know for how long you´ve been playing before dropping out but AFAK you cant really ´lose´ a skill like that completely... sure, you might get rusty and lose some dexterity in your fingers but most of guitar playing is just muscle memory and information stored deep in your brain... much like ´riding a bike´ or ´fast typing´
...I´ve been playing guitar since 1988 and in recent years had times where I wouldnt pick up a guitar in 10-12 months. When I did, I was totally rusty ofcourse and got painfull blisters on my fingers right away but after 1-3 days of ´warming up´ again I´m usually right back where I left off... So, IMO as long as your fingers/muscles are not affected by some limiting issues due to illness or you suffer from serious memory loss (like after a stroke) its totally possible to regain all your Guitar Skills in no time ...Cant speak for the ´reading music´ part though, as I´ve never had that skill anyway and always played by ear or along tabs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Kenneth Haight
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MilkyJoe
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I had a mental break down a few years ago, a very traumatic one, and lost the ability to play as part of it, holding a guitar i may as well have been holding a trumpet.
One day at a gig my brain just clicked and the ability to play returned... BUT... I cannot remember how to play any of the many songs i know, but the ability to play is back, but i don't have the time to re-learn the music.
Dr. Suchong
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methane47
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ClanOfNone
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Drinking, I was a champion, but I don't miss it!
Aesius
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I became really good at fancy, medieval-script-looking calligraphy in 7th grade-8th grade. It was the greatest skill ever for talking to girls as a shy middle schooler. They all wanted me to write their names on stuff. Eventually I started charging $1 per name. I don't remember when or why I quit, but by high school it was a distant and somewhat cringe memory. Now I look back on it as a genius move by my 13-year-old self.
StueyDuck
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Besides passing just about everything in rugby, I haven't been rugby fit since I was like 23...
Sure, i keep up a bit of exercise and gym, but it really is two different types of fitness, I mean I was like basically 98 Kgs back then and it was lean and my legs were big...
I don't think I could drop kick nearly as far now.
Sure, i keep up a bit of exercise and gym, but it really is two different types of fitness, I mean I was like basically 98 Kgs back then and it was lean and my legs were big...
I don't think I could drop kick nearly as far now.
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I had four years of Spanish starting in the fourth grade. I lived in Mexico for over a year. I was more or less fluent in Spanish.
I got in a car accident at 16 and had massive head trauma. When I woke up in the hospital, I could no longer understand or speak Spanish. But it's weird, over 30 years later, and occasionally I'll hear someone speaking it and totally understand them while other times it just sounds like gibberish. This weekend I had a plumber show up to my house that didn't speak English (only Spanish) and I kind of instinctively just told him (in Spanish) what needed to be done - to the shock of my wife of 20 years who has literally never before heard me speak Spanish.
Brains are weird.
I got in a car accident at 16 and had massive head trauma. When I woke up in the hospital, I could no longer understand or speak Spanish. But it's weird, over 30 years later, and occasionally I'll hear someone speaking it and totally understand them while other times it just sounds like gibberish. This weekend I had a plumber show up to my house that didn't speak English (only Spanish) and I kind of instinctively just told him (in Spanish) what needed to be done - to the shock of my wife of 20 years who has literally never before heard me speak Spanish.
Brains are weird.
Mr1999
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Playing the violin. I remember being in either kindergarten or first grade and was taking music lessons at achool, and I remember I was starting to get it,and could play basic tunes. I remember being really excited and proud of myself, probably my fiest experience being proud with myself as a kid. Then one day my string broke. The music teacher was a Karen so she was of no help getting a new string for me when i told her, my parents didn't really care either, doubt they knew or care that I was starting to catch on, and you know how that goes, slipped through the cracks.
p_xavier
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Well so many women have penises these days. You just lost an archaic skill.