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Location: Boise, Idaho | "You can never have enough guitars."--Beal |
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Location: south east Michigan | Indeed...
very interesting
please... keep it up. |
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Location: NJ | Don't be "That Guy". |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | First lesson: don't leave Gertrude out and uncased to go answer a phone call if your husband and son are wrestling in the same room.
Second lesson: don't overplay a Guild dreadnaught that desperately needs the strings lowered and the neck adjusted.
Third lesson: don't compare yourself to someone else and get discouraged; there will always be people who play better than you do.
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | 1)
Do Not give up
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Notice Pain , re -think, do something about it
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Do Not give up
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by g8r:
The idea (again supported by extensive research) is that early in the learning process (short-term memory) if you allow a mistake your brain considers that mistake acceptable, and you're likely to keep making that same mistake each time you play that particular passage, until the mistake itself becomes hard-wired into long-term memory. Oh dear! :( That doesn't bode well for me.
Originally posted by cliff:
Don't be "That Guy". What guy?? :confused:
Originally posted by Designzilla:
If you jump around and look really cool while you play, a small percentage of people won't notice you suck. :D |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | "You're better off, practicing 30 minutes-a-day, than 3 hours, on a Sunday."
"Practice effect"- increase frequency, less duration, and have a purpose for the practice.
I tend to "practice", by myself. I "play" with others. I assume we all suck, just at different times (hopefully). |
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Location: NJ | ". . It's Not Your Fault . . "
- something Beal told me QUITE often on the GolfCourse at Amelia |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by seesquare:
I tend to "practice", by myself. I "play" with others. which is probably better than playing with yourself and practicing by others.
and in this context, i'm not even gonna touch the sentence you wrote after that one. :D |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by cliff:
". . It's Not Your Fault . . "
- something Beal told me QUITE often on the GolfCourse at Amelia They just put the hole at the wrong end of the fairway, right? ;) |
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Location: NJ | . . .so, . . you HEARD about THAT one, eh?? . . . |
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Location: closely held secret | Yeah, you told me... the reason I thought it was funny was because I could really relate to it...
On one of the holes Bob, Tim, Stephen and I teed off. Stephen got a good hit. We stopped at the other balls, and mine, Bob and Tim's were in nearly a perfect line across the fairway, almost the exact distance from the tee. We were speculating on how cool that was, and the chances of it happening when Stephen told us to look at it from the downrange side. We were not only perfectly lined up, but we were all lined up about 5 yards past the womens tee... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Most important Lesson?
The time someone forget to latch the case on Les Thompson's custom Olsen and I watched as it fell face first onto the firehouse floor.
The Horror. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Ouch. That's a lesson.
Mine? Don't (as a 17 year old hack), touch Paul's '65 Tele. The fat lip will hurt for days and the other guys will do nothing but say "...Yeah, tol' you so. He's crazy 'bout that guitar. By the way, you went down like a ton of bricks, man. Good choice." |
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Location: big island | tommy emmanuel said, "hey, your audience is rooting for you. they want you to do good. they're on your side usually. relax."
i can't understand why that concept was so hard for me to accept. but it does help to relieve the stress of live performances. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | "Put your hand right here."
Oh wait, you said guitar! |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | I was on a day trip with lanaki last year, scouting a place for the first Southern Jam.
Just being with a professional player made me adjust my goals to what they they should be.....enjoy your ability for what it is...and appreciate others for what they have achieved.
Thanks Randy, I know that you may not realize it, but it was the best lesson that I have ever had. Mahalo friend!!!! |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Professionals give lessons ..??.. |
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Location: CA | Billy Gibbons secret to ZZ Top's success:
"Never add a fourth chord."
That kinda opened my eyes a bit. Lesson-wise, I had about 5 of them when I was maybe 10 years old. Been all grope and feel since then. Which of course is why I still play like a 10-year-old. |
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| Not guitar related but when I was 5 or 6 years old someone gave me a harmonica; I was walking down our street in Belfast Northern Ireland making god awful noises on the thing when suddenly the notes came together into what might be described as music; a switch went off in my head and I thought 'so that's how it works' - I remember running home to tell my parents but they were not impressed; shortly thereafter we moved to Canada..lol |
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Location: Erie, PA, USA | I remember when I first started to play and learned how to tune the guitar (by ear). It's sometimes more about listening and not so much about playing. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | When I first realized that most of the first position chords were "movable" chords and that a "D" chord moved up 2 frets = "E", etc.!.... so simple, yet what a breakthrough! |
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Location: Utah | If it has been played, it is not impossible to play! Some things will always be beyond my ability for sure, but there are many songs which initially sound "impossible", yet someone has already played it, so it is possible that I can play it.
In other words, it's not as hard as it may seem at first. |
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