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Location: Boise, Idaho | Kinda bluesey, but there's nothing in it about a dog. |
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Location: Portland, OR | We do it for fun. If it's a job you want, there are those around. But for me, if it isn't fun, I'm gone. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Originally posted by sligoman:
We do it for fun. If it's a job you want, there are those around. But for me, if it isn't fun, I'm gone. I hear you. It's like anything...ya wants ta be good at it, ya gots ta work at it. |
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Location: Chicago | if it isn't fun, I'm gone! +1 |
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Location: Utah | For me it isn't fun if there isn't improvement. There isn't improvement without work, and there's no motivation to work unless there is some performance to prepare for. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by FlySig:
For me it isn't fun if there isn't improvement. There isn't improvement without work, and there's no motivation to work unless there is some performance to prepare for. YIKES....I think I have to give up playing guitar! |
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Location: Michigan | I have no place to go except up as far as my playing goes. I do find that my practice is at its best when I am working on a new song or two. I have the desire to keep picking up the guit. My only "performance" is in church and as our director so wisely puts it "priority one is to lead the congregation and praise". "performance" is way down the line for me. I don't know how you all do it. I get nervous playing in front of my family and even my teacher much less a paying crowd. I tip my hat to all of you who do this in front of an audience/for money.
I have to agree it is a process and that process seems to have its highs and lows. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | For me, I feel like I'm going along, getting nowhere, and then all of a sudden, something will just "click" and I find myself up a step or two.
Just recently I started to find myself playing lead things (not complicated, not difficult, definitely not showy)--build around that convenient little "D triangle," the highest three strings of the F chord, and then the highest three strings of a barred Bb chord. Shifting them around up and down the neck finds you all kinds of interesting stuff.
I know that for you folks who play lead all the time we're talking kindergarten stuff here, but it's just added a whole new way for me to do things--and they work in any key. (A real plus when the pianist likes flat keys.)
So, maybe my progress is slower now than it would have been if I had started 40 years or so ago, but I know that I surely appreciate it more now than I ever would have then.
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Originally posted by Jewel's Mom a/k/a Joisey Goil #1:
For me, I feel like I'm going along, getting nowhere, and then all of a sudden, something will just "click" and I find myself up a step or two.
Just recently I started to find myself playing lead things (not complicated, not difficult, definitely not showy)--build around that convenient little "D triangle," the highest three strings of the F chord, and then the highest three strings of a barred Bb chord. Shifting them around up and down the neck finds you all kinds of interesting stuff.
I know that for you folks who play lead all the time we're talking kindergarten stuff here, but it's just added a whole new way for me to do things--and they work in any key. (A real plus when the pianist likes flat keys.)
So, maybe my progress is slower now than it would have been if I had started 40 years or so ago, but I know that I surely appreciate it more now than I ever would have then.
--Karen I wish my process was clicking in like yours Karen. Guys, this woman can play guitar! She was following us on guitar and bass with having the music in front of her.
Your secret is out now, Joisey Girl.
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | :eek: ... :o ( :D )
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Playing guitar... it's a process.
