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A small amount of alcohol can reduce performance related anxiety. Depending on where you sit on the Yerkes-Dodson curve at the time that might be a good thing. It also might not.
Alcohol reduces coordination and relfexes which will impair your ability to play accurately. Disinhibition caused by alcohol will make you overestimate your ability and leads to bad decision making.
There's a huge amount of scientific date on all this if you look up driving and alcohol studies. While there aren't specific studies, it's perfectly reasonable to assume it's the same with guitar as it's the same physiological processes involved.
You might get away with it to a certain extent, particularly if you're playing easy stuff. To make it more complicated, disinhibited behaviour can arguably appear cool if you're Keith Moon but not if you're Kill 'Em All era Dave Mustaine. And we all know the perils of long term alcohol/drug use in musicians with a huge list of those lost to it - that usually starts of innocently and increases insidiously.
Of course, you can also get away with it much more if your audience are more drunk than you are but beware that mobile phone recordings put on social media do not have a "I was drunk" filter to replicate what they heard through their alcohol befuddled brain and will reveal the horrible reality.
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