relevant oglaf: https://www.oglaf.com/hellotwiggy/
disclaimer: the site is NSFW but this specific comic that I linked is SFW
I’d rather sell my soul.
Can’t he just take my firstborn or something? I can make more children, but i don’t think i can make a new soul
No deal.
If the deal was I’d be excellent guaranteed after ten years of practice, that would be a good deal. Because, I could practice 20 years without a deal and still be mediocre at best.
Yeah I tried hard to pick up guitar and despite daily practice I never could make the right sounds come out from my chords reliably. Now it just sits in a corner mocking me.
The hardest part is the start, I recommend giving it a shot again it’s a lot easier once you get that feel for making the strings sound correctly
@KuroiKaze acoustic is notoriously harder than electric. An electric with low action is much easier on the hands. Though I am of the mind its better to start on acoustic and then move to electric youll feel like youre 10x better, if its easier just go electric. Or also, bass is good to learn as well. I started on that and its still my main but I play guitar too just not as well.
Or maybe guitar doesn’t vibe with you. Theres so many other instruments ! Dont give up
I did get a good electric with nice action but part of the issue might be I have really thick fingers that curve towards each other. That and because everyone told me not to play left handed so I got a right handed guitar to learn on. Despite all my practice when you ask me to air guitar, my initial instinct is always to do it with the left-handed approach.
@KuroiKaze restring it left handed and try it
Y’know I never actually tried the Jimi Hendrix approach, maybe it’s time I start
Yeah, I’m imagining the devil going around getting people to learn good habits as “deals”, teaching them to be independent and not need to rely on established organizations or higher powers.
I mean that’s the literal devil. If there was ANY proof you should surrender to a higher power I think that’s it.
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, the devil himself is also a higher power, and if he’s telling you to reject higher powers, why not listen to him?
(By the way I’m stealing my reasoning from Eserite ideology from The Gods Are Bastards, but there it’s not the devil but a recognized god of the Pantheon)
How are you not good after 10 years?
If there’s no immediate feedback, practice only embeds the errors and assumptions you inevitably make, and unlearning muscle memory is much harder than acquiring it. Practice alone does not, unfortunately, make perfect.
I really wish more research firepower was put behind adult learners since the entire education system seems to be based around teaching people technical skills instead of musicality.
entire education system seems to be based around teaching people technical skills instead of musicality
Right, because what’s considered “musical” is highly subjective and would be useless without the theoretical knowledge to analyze and describe others’ playing and apply it to your own. Good luck playing jazz without knowing what a II-V-I or major scale is. I’ve taught guitar part time and most of my students were 12 year olds who wanted to play like Kirk Hammet but didn’t want to learn theory, guess what? They sucked and had no idea what to play that wasn’t memorized tabs. Once I convinced them to just learn A minor on the low E string after a few lessons they could thrash improvise riffs as well as anyone, some of them even discovered modes (mostly phrygian) all on their own by just fooling around at home! Creativity comes with experience, experience comes with a base level of knowledge about what you’re doing.
I agree, theory is very close to essential. But for me it wasn’t enough, but it is for others. I wonder, though, what would happen if you bypassed theory entirely and just taught them to play by ear; that, I think, is the truely valuable skill that the theory is scaffolding for. It’s not so much that they know what frets to play for a minor scale on the e string so much as they are learning what that scale sounds like and training themselves to navigate on the fret board. I think that’s basically the Suzuki method is an example of a hear first, play second approach without reference to theory initially.
At any rate, I’m mostly criticizing reading-first (or worse, reading only) methods.
My problem was I extremely lazy and anxious, too terrified to make a mistake, so I just did everything as robotically, without paying attention, and as long as I played the right notes, my teacher was happy, so I was happy (in my own terrified, stay-of-execution way).
I really wish more research firepower was put behind adult learners since the entire education system seems to be based around teaching people technical skills
Welcome to the fun world of modern western culture, where anything that isn’t boosting work productivity or making lots of money is either ignored or treated as stupid and worthless. It might be bad for individuals’ mental health and destroy the sense of community and belonging, but think about the profits!!!
