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Location: On The Fringe Of Ground Zero | ALPEP : as a former teacher, I always told my students that we learn until the day we die. I will never stop learing both things in life and guitar. I feel that I will never master the guitar. I don't even know or can grasp what mastering the guitar means.
let the fingers do the talking.
add me to the beginners I agree life as well as music is a life long journey in learning.
I'm jump starting my love of the guitar after 15 years of hibernation. It's like learning how to read/walk all over again. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Hmmmmm.....play lead. No. Play written guitar music. No. Play from tab. No. So far, not too good. Play in flat keys, yes. (Don't like it, though.) Transpose on the fly, yes. (With accompanying fits of heartburn.) Play barre chords, yes. (Though the ones built on A aren't my favorites.) Let's see......add that, subtract that, multiply times two, divide by three (resharpening pencil)......I think I come out somewhere in intermediate. Oh...I forgot...absolutely crazy about playing--advanced! :D
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Hybernation..?..is that the part where everything is subdued.. :)
Vic |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I find it interesting and insightful that so many of y'all find it hard to rate yourself...
(conversation that I had with a co-worker)
Avery asks me, "Can you play that?" referring to a song on the radio...
"Yes, but not very well" I reply.
"You've got a dozen guitars, and you're telling me that you're not good enough to play That?"
I say, "If someone tells you that they are 'Good', they are either Really Good or they are Really Conceited! (or just lying) and it is usually the latter!"
For me, the answer was easy... I am a beginner, with flashes of the intermediary! :D |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | To me "beginner" is that stage where you know less than a dozen chords and struggle to make changes smooth enough to keep up with your singing or a smooth rhythm. Once you've got beyond that you can call yourself intermediate, which I do.
Advanced intermediate is where you can learn some fairly complex pieces (e.g. intro to Crazy on You) within a few weeks (which I cannot do) and have a range of playing styles you can access (e.g. advanced strumming, fingerpicking, lead).
Top level players can do all that and more and are able to play very difficult pieces with a level of polish that makes the rest of us blanch. When I'm around a top level player I want to hear him/her play my guitar, so I know what it is really capable of. Those of you who are making money from playing are probably at this level. The fact that someone knows they have a lot of improving left in them doesn't make them not advanced.
I'm a psychologist and a defining feature of some of the master counsellors is their humility and willingness to admit what they don't know. Doesn't mean they are not masters.
Echoing what others have said, I enjoy playing and if I can keep making little improvements, I am happy. I can't see anyone every paying to listen though, as long as the neighbours don't complain ... |
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Location: UK | Can play the CD player real well but not so hot on the VCR.
Feel I have lost the plot ................. need a coffee. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Richard, we need to talk.
Yeah Paul a coffee might help.
The mentality, not the playing and mine not yours
AJ |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by PaulUK:
Can play the CD player real well but not so hot on the VCR.
Feel I have lost the plot ................. need a coffee. Funny thing Paul. I bet you don't have nearly as many TVs and VCRs as you do guitars. |
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Location: UK | Very true.
Don't play them as much either. |
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Location: new jersey, u.s.a. | i can play WAY better than any 2 year old on my block!! :D |
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Location: SoCal | I find that when I start comparing myself to other people, that's when my headache comes back. I play better than some, worse than others. I keep trying to learn and improve. And I try to enjoy it whenever I pick up a guitar.
What else is there? |
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