Hey,
I had very mixed feelings about my last REC:
https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=57616On the one hand, I was very happy to have finally nailed the timing (at least I think I have...), which for me was the most important thing this time. On the other hand, a lot of other stuff is falling short. Somehow I expected a much better rating considering I worked on that lesson for several weeks now. I don't want to complain because I think I got exactly what I deserved
, it's just that I was pretty convinced that I had visibly improved only to find out that (just one example) somehow my pick moved to the back of my index finger (as correctly pointed out by Ben) over the last weeks without me even noticing.
Darius also hit home when saying that I could have detected most issues by myself. And to be honest, when I set my mind to make a REC last Sunday and wasn't happy with any of the takes (and there were a lot), I knew deep inside that I wasn't ready yet but I just wanted to get it over with anyway.
At this point I'm pretty much torn apart between just letting that lesson be (I'm really starting to get sick of it) and finally having a lesson really nailed. What's better here? "Finished, not perfect?" or "As good as I can possibly make it?". I believe that perfecting a lesson would push me forward a great deal but I just don't know how to find the motivation to do it. I think I have a natural tendency to move to the next best thing when I'm getting annoyed by something. I'm not lacking motivation to play guitar, I'd play all day long if I could, but somehow that doesn't translate to playing the same thing over weeks and weeks just to make it perfect.
This is not about motivation in general but that very specific motivation to push through until the end.
So how do you guys do it? Some of you get high ratings consistently. Does it come kind of easily to you to work on a lesson until it's perfect? Do you concentrate on a single lesson or do you work on other stuff in parallel?
As a sidenote: Why is it forbidden for the poster to reply to a REC thread? This would make asking questions easier because otherwise you have to write several PMs or create new threads.