It had to happen sometime, so I'm not really surprised that suddenly and randomly I feel very hot when no-one else is.
Quite possible it's overheating my brain.
I wasn't ready for the massive brain fog I experienced right in the middle of my Taiko class a couple of weeks ago. I had great difficulty focussing on what I was doing, which ws really unfortunate as we've been learning a drum routine that involves moving around the drums in a coordinated fashion.
Brain fog isn't not very good for coodinated mobile drumming.
While my memory isn't great at the best of times, I've decided to blame my subsequent Taiko disasters in this change-of-life event too.
Last week I actually felt like I'd made some progress in learning the routine, but this week my ego back back to zero. I'm kind of competitive in a way - I don't have to be the best, but I really hate being the worst.
"I wonder if we are allowed to be beginners forever" I joked to a fellow drummer (who only started this term but is so much better at it than me). In response, she said that maybe I could talk to our teacher about it...
So because I hate to be the weakest link in the Taiko chain, I'm going to actually practice, and but I don't mean just watching the video of the advanced class doing the routine. I mean air-drumming and moving around the room like a ghost dancer.
