Trying Not To Get Discouraged |
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Dec 6 2006, 10:38 AM
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I can tell you from my own experiences that things do improve with time.
One of my prime motivators for playing the guitar were the Pink Floyd solos from Comfortably numb and Another Brick. I tried to learn them far too early....but its easy to say that in hindsight !! I have had several attempts over the last couple of years to play those solo's and boy were they hard !! If something is proving just a little difficult now - put it down a while - and go back to it in a few months and try again - you will be surprised at how by playing other stuff your techniques will have improved and how much easier stuff becomes to play - you may take several attempts over a year or 2 to finally crack some things but I promise if you keep playing and learning new stuff, that one time when you go back to someting, suddenly it will seem so much easier and you will wonder how you had difficulties. In my case, I really could not play ABITW solo for so long - then earlier this year, I spent a couple of days trying again and suddenly not only can I play it - I can play it at tempo along with the original track, and it was not so hard to learn this time - finally I had learned the techniques needed. That is the important bit - its the techniques that you need to learn - and learn well. Once you have all that stuff in your kitbag then songs are easy!. Unfortunately there is no easy or quick way to learn them other than putting in the time practicing. Whilst its good to challenge yourself by learning hard stuff - you also need to learn and keep playing the easy stuff until its second nature - its not just the songs your learning, its the techniques and thats really important. After best part of 3 years playing, I can now learn to play pretty much anything in a couple of days if I put in the practice - 18 months ago - I could have tried for 2 weeks and not got it !!!. Ok so there are some things out of my range still - shredding and sweep picking for one - but up to now I have no interest in that kind of play. Fast play just leaves me cold so until I get "inspired" I know I will never be that kind of player but thats fine...I now know after all this time that MY style is starting to develop - the way I improvise and strum are all starting to be unique to ME and yet enjoyable (I hope) to others. I think this is all possible because by learning how others play and learning the differences in styles of play helps you to realise that there is no "right" way - but if you play even a very famous "solo" or "riff" your way, it still sounds great and perfectly recognisable. My advise is forget the bit your having difficulty with for a while, once your no longer improving, the frustration becomes a negative on your learning. - learn something else - then in 2 months go back - I promise you will be much better at the stuff you found hard. -------------------- its not easy
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