I can’t stop practicing this BACH piece (as a fingerstyle guitarist...)

Read this story called “The Day I Pooped My Pants“ as you listen :-) What’s the connection between that and the music of J.S. Bach? Well, I’m glad you asked! This story is about my experience at age 15 - as I attempted to perform this same Bach piece for the first time (the Courante from the 3rd Cello Suite) without having practiced it enough! Oh yeah, you know where this is going!!! Boy did this piece teach me a lot about preparing enough for performance. FYI - this story excerpt is from my book “The Inner Game of Fingerstyle Guitar“ which I bet you’d love. It’s available on Amazon as a paperback and Kindle E-Book ► ============ It was a sunny springtime Saturday in New York City, 1986. For all the students at our little music school, myself included, it was a very big day. Little did I know that I’d always remember this day as “The Day I Pooped My Pants.” At that time, I was fifteen years old and deemed to be one of the promising, young, classical guitar studen
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