How Many Hours Of Practice To Be Rick Graham? |
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How Many Hours Of Practice To Be Rick Graham? |
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Jul 7 2017, 03:14 PM |
Good question Cael!
I have been playing guitar for 24 years now. I'm sure that I've passed the 10000 hours of guitar practice, and I think that if I count the time I've been composing and playing with my band I dare to say that I've exceeded the 30000 hours, and maybe more. My life is all around playing, making music and doing related things like working at GMC, giving private classes, recording and producing other musicians. How do I get inspiration or motivation? There can be many reasons. The most obvious are that I love music, and that watching my heroes play made me want to go for it. People discouraging me, saying that it was difficult, or impossible, make me work even stronger. I remember my father saying when I was 15, you'll never make a living from music! And that made me stronger, that made me thing that it was difficult so I had to work even harder. It was always like that. I remember being a 15 years old and comparing my playing with Yngwie or Vai, and feeling sad or depressed, but this depression was converted in more motivation, and reflected in obsessive practice in those days. At any time of my life, I think that when I was 21, I become more interesting in composition and production than guitar. I had already been able to play all those songs that I wanted to play Malmsteen, Vai, Satriaini, Dream Theater, and I started to want to compose my own music, but not that kind of music that I enjoyed playing, I wanted to compose the kind of music that I've enjoyed listening. It was like a whole new world and that's how my band Cirse was born. I remember dedicating 10 hours or more per day to composition, arranging, and producing the music for the band. All that hard work make me reach another goal, that one that I dreamed when I was an 11 years old child. Playing in a rock band like my teenage heroes: Guns & Roses. In those days, there was no youtube, internet, so there wasn't a way to do an online guitar career, and being in Argentina, I couldn't see how I could make a Steve Vai type career. There wasn't places to play, there wasn't audience. So the best thing if I wanted to grow as a musician was to have a rock band that could play everywhere. So my goal switched from wanting to be a great guitarist to wanting to have a great rock band with amazing songs. In the meantime I've discovered that it's more difficult to have a great band with great songs (I'm still working on it!) than becoming a great guitarist. Just 2 or 3 years after starting Cirse, I've started working at GMC and my love for guitar practice was back and never disappeared. The grown of internet makes me want to become better at guitar and try to do a parallel guitar career. Guys like Rick Graham, Nick Johnston, Mateus Asato, Kiko Loureiro, doing great job with social networks really motivate me! I wish days were much longer!!! There are so many amazing things that we could do. One thing that always happened to me is that I've felt guilty is I didn't play guitar at least 3 hours per day. Noways I'm a bit less sick hahaha, but the feeling is still on me... Ok that's a part of my story, I don't know if it answers the question, but maybe brings some inspiration. -------------------- My lessons
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Jul 7 2017, 04:07 PM |
Malcolm Gladwell made that 10,000 hours idea popular, and there's a lot of truth to it. People like Gabriel and Todd are not born with all that talent. They work hard to achieve it. That's good news for the rest of us. It means we can achieve some success by putting in a similar effort.
The other factor that is often overlooked though, is how you devote yourself during those 10,000 hours. I suspect Gabriel and Todd have wiring in their brains that locks their focus entirely on the guitar while they are practicing. When they spend 5 minutes practicing something, their brains are dedicated entirely to that practice and they get a lot out of it. For the rest of us, it's a struggle to achieve that same level of focus, so we may not get quite as much out of our time practicing. And, to Cael's point, I think this focus has a lot to do with desire to practice. If you're achieving deep focus on your practice, you'll get more out of it, and if you get more out of it, your desire to practice will grow. And if your desire to practice grows, your focus during practice sessions will improve. It feeds back on itself. And that's more good news. It means your desire and inspiration and motivation can grow as you practice more. -------------------- Cyber-industrial music and video animations:
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Jul 7 2017, 04:46 PM |
Rammikin post made me remember this other vid that Rick that is also very interesting.
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Jul 8 2017, 09:15 AM |
Going on the 10000 hour theory, with my life commitments I might be ok by the time I'm 70 years old
To be honest, I think most of us have to try and put that out of our minds and just enjoy it. Not long ago a GMC member gave up work to try the 10000 hour theory out. I can't remember who it was but he didn't get to the level he expected. This emphasises that, as is said many many times on here, you have to forget the destination and enjoy the journey. Cheers This post has been edited by Phil66: Jul 8 2017, 07:33 PM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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