Well, I don’t read, and I don’t listen to the radio. If I decide I want a new lick, I just lay in bed and think of it. Don’t even need an instrument. Some of my best licks I can just think. Some of them aren’t good, though, but when I try them out on the guitar, I know whether to keep them or not.-Roy Buchanan
From Guitar Player.
Roy brings up a point that a lot of musicians abide by; practicing in the mind. I think it makes sense. Practice routines often revolve around scale, chord patterns; a lot of geometry. Another component is usually some type of way to increase dexterity. And, that's all good an fine but, when you work something out in your mind before picking up thee guitar maybe, you are bypassing those technical issues and getting more of a pure musical essence.
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