How many of you practice while watching TV? How many of you play along with the music that is ON the TV? Are you adept at finding the right key to play along in...playing jazz or blues licks to a commercial melody? Grinding out power rhythms to evening World News program theme songs?

I once read that Eddie Van Halen used to play in front of his TV constantly while it was on. Noodling and practicing while he watching programs. He said it got his mind away from figuring things out mentally and allowed his subconscious to take over. Playing along with whats coming out on the TV is a different take on this idea but it does yield some good things and funny laughs and smiles from your family. Needless to say you must be in tune to a standard tuning mode in order to do this correctly.