Recovery from the stroke [one more and I'll go nuts] has been interesting. I have no speech issues. I still talk at mach 5 in English/Lakota blend. Confusion for all ha!
The right leg is still like a weight attached at times, but the hand. The right hand is a mess. I can grip my pistols fairly well, but I drop picks. This happened the last time and I got better. But now it's different. So like a good Ranger, I refuse to accept defeat. I regroup and train for the mission. So here's my training for getting stronger in my playing.
I love classical, blues, hard rock, smooth jazz, and screaming metal... Yeah, I know, strange taste. But in this I found that I can work on say Moonlight Sonata, or Blue Danube by our old buddy Beethoven. Or Chopin's Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor l.p..35 [the burial durge from old cartoons] or Prélude in E minor.and the like with a seriously cranked 30W Marshall with some delay mixed in. Chopin can be very dark and when played with a thick metal tone its cool.
But moreover, this blending is reversed by taking contemporary [within the last 50 years or so] and playing them clean with just reverb and fingerpicking Iron Butterfly or Black Sabbath tunes like they were classical melodies. Also bagpipes. The droning undertones with the melody atop is intriguing. I'll play almost mesmerized! Too cool....
Good training for the fingers, ears, and the mind I think. So this is my method of getting myself back into shape and not be bored out of my mind playing the same stock numbers we all play to the point of nausea..... When I go into Guitar Center for occasional stuff I hear the kids playing their "GC stock licks" you know, the intro to about 20 songs about 4 bars worth all with mega distortion. Yeah, that kinda nausea.