Flow, and Guitar –Matt Latham

Turner talks about the concept of flow in the appendix of his book. I found it interesting how we utilize flow everyday. It can be sports, studying, video games, or music. Everybody has felt that feeling that they are totally immersed in what they are doing. It is like you have left this planet and gone somewhere else. You are totally and wholly dedicated to what you are doing. I have experienced this while playing guitar. When I play guitar I do it for myself, no one else. It is a form of meditation for me, and typically I end up closing my eyes and let my hands figure it out. I’ve found that once I allow myself to totally be immersed in the music my hands seem to work on their own, the music seems to flow out of me and into the guitar and out again. I loose myself in the music, I almost seem to disappear. When Turner spoke about Flow in his book, I doubt he had guitar in-mind. But nevertheless that’s where my mind took me.