The Dowggie Blog

The bad news is — after more than year of this unfortunate physiological impairment, I can still hardly feel my hands. Both hands are numb. Both hands feel swollen. Swollen and numb.

The good news is, despite the numbness, I’ve found ways to work around it and still execute most of what I want to execute. Most of my dexerity, strength and speed is back.

At the Angelsong album launch last September 13, my chops were in more or less fine form. I was able to double-time my lines most of the night.

The past few weeks since the launch, I’ve been in fine form at my regular monday night gig at Mandarin. Been able to execute 90%-95% of my chordal vocabulary and around 70%-80% of my single note vocabulary.

The past two monday gigs have been particularly encouraging.

Last monday my hands were working right but the guitar wasn’t. Due to an electronic/technical glitch, the guitar’s B string could hardly be heard. It was a tad frustrating that my hands were working well but the guitar wasn’t. Felt like a grand conspiracy to keep me from sounding good.

That technical guitar problem has since been laid to rest. So tonight found my guitar, Bajekjek (aka Chuvanez Veneracion), sounding fine.

And praise God and Goddess, my hands worked well tonight too.

So I sounded ok to my ears. Finally!

Woof!

At isa pang malaking WOOF!

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