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Feb 6 2012, 03:31 AM |
I'm kinda with you on this one. I would be interested to hear some instructors and students advice on this.
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Feb 6 2012, 08:04 PM |
Well, I would compare it with making a statement when you are in love with a girl and you are talking to her, you are not thinking of what you're going to tell her - Heh, I love that metaphor so much that I feel compelled to push it to an extreme! Imagine that the girl you love is Russian, or Swedish, or French or German, just pick a language you have never learned and don't understand. How are you going to tell her how you feel? She is the love of your life, so just picking up a dictionary and learning 3 words "I Love You" in her language is not going to cut it - it doesn't convey the vastness of how you feel and she deserves so much more. So, you go to classes, you learn the language properly. You spend some time learning words, phrases, vocabulary. Then you study the poets of that language in their native tongue, you read extensively. Next, you have a go at writing some love poetry yourself. At the end of this, you are so well versed in the language that it ceases to be the barrier it once was, and you are able to tell the girl the way you feel straight form your heart using all the words and phrases at your command, both learned from great poets, and also that you have written yourself. The result? Of course she falls in love with you! OK, I am sure you see where this is going - the foreign language is the language of music. Words are notes, phrases are riffs, and those other poets? All the other guitarists you have admired over the years. When you have all of this inside you, it becomes easy to take the music straight form your heart to the guitar - not as a 3 word phrase you learned form a book, but as a living breathing thing that shows your true emotions. This is the true reason we practice so hard, not so that we can consciously play those notes and scales but so that we have them inside us unconsciously, ready to pull out when we need them in response to a particular thought or feeling. OK, I think I kicked that metaphor to death, I'll be quiet now! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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Feb 6 2012, 09:05 PM |
Well, I don't mind how long the metaphor was, that was a great post, Andrew !
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Feb 6 2012, 09:43 PM |
Well, I don't mind how long the metaphor was, that was a great post, Andrew ! Thanks Ben - you are obviously a very discerning individual! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
Live long and prosper ... My Stuff: Electric Guitars : Ibanez Jem7v, Line6 Variax 700, Fender Plus Strat with 57/62 Pickups, Line6 Variax 705 Bass Acoustic Guitars : Taylor 816ce, Martin D-15, Line6 Variax Acoustic 300 Nylon Effects : Line6 Helix, Keeley Modded Boss DS1, Keeley Modded Boss BD2, Keeley 4 knob compressor, Keeley OxBlood Amps : Epiphone Valve Jnr & Head, Cockburn A.C.1, Cockburn A.C.2, Blackstar Club 50 Head & 4x12 Cab |
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