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Just to comment on your first point about the influence of the Internet......I feel that there is a theme of online courses and tuition videos, which tends to promote the idea that playing guitar is easy, when it simply isn’t. Anyone with reasonable experience knows that it requires diligence, hard work and an ability to solve physical and mental difficulties. The ‘It’s easy’ message is another one that threatens our ability to feel good about our playing.
Thanks for the vid, good perspective. There's definitely a difference between "being a guitarist" and "making music", which is easily forgotten
To get an idea of how weird and difficult it is to hold and play a guitar, you can turn it upside down and try playing it left/right handed. It's a horrible experience lol
One of the main issues I have is I can't do something, yet I see others who can. Because we see such a gap between what we can do and what we want to do, we get overwhelmed and give up. He makes the point that we shouldn't look forwards too far (though clearly it's good to have ambition) but we should look back and see how far we've come (a point you also made in the vid). I know this is something I am guilty of, looking too far forward. I have to keep reminding myself that I am making progress.
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I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I've got a a habit of starting off with something fairly small, simple then thinking.....but to do that I'd need to....and while I'm at it I should really....etc. Snowballing until it seems like a massive overwhelming nightmare! Then feel rubbish cause I've done nothing at all!
I started leaning music on wind instruments with notation nearly 30 years ago and that approach is still pretty much seared in my brain. For folk/pop/informal styles it totally makes sense to learn from the ground up in a different way
It"s a lot more tempting to click on "10 easy blues licks" rather than "these blues licks are actually quite challenging, but rewarding in the end"
I love books like outliers,bounce, talent code,peak,practice perfect etc. And this guy has some great learning tips on his page etc. I put a link to it on my iPad home page. This stuff is inspiring and helpful. Good post
Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006ZN0LJ6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_kVHqDb5NNN1Y6
I think another impact that internet has had on the learning experience is the way it puts people under pressure to become polymaths rather than just focusing on what they like. So much material is available on so many techniques, genres, sub genres that people question whether they have consumed and synthesized "enough" before being allowed to just play what they like playing. And then when you read interviews with great players one consistent theme is they just latched onto things they liked the sound of and very soon started doing their own thing with them...all the while just being driven by doing what they liked.
I like the setting too. A nice change from the visual clutter of a room that’s been arranged to look impressive as a video background. Room reverberation is the unnoticed sonic clutter in a lot of videos. Recording outside clears up the soundscape. The whole video says “calm down and focus on the important things”.