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Apr 12 2013, 02:02 PM
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Hello guys! There are some common feelings that we have as musician that are very negative. Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the amount of material you think you need to get through? Have you ever went to sleep thinking that you failed because you didn't practice enough hours?
Kenny Werner talks about this in his amazing book called "Effortless Mastery": ”You feel as though there is a huge workload ahead of you with so little time. You experience a fear of dying before you’ll get it all together! You see, fear has ruined your practising by rushing you through the material, rendering you unable to absorb anything. A fearful mind won’t allow you to concentrate and absorb. Even while focusing on one thing, the mind is exerting subtle or not-so-subtle pressure with the thought of the other things that need tending to. This creates a very anxious and insecure feeling. When you skim the surface, you acquire many bad habits with regard to tempo, fingering and other details. Repetition of these bad habits causes them to grow ingrained ever more deeply into your subconscious, so that you are actually doing what I call negative practice. in this way, one hour of practising is better than two, thirty minutes is better than an hour, and no practising at all would be preferable to that kind of negative practice”. Let's discuss about this! -------------------- My lessons
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Apr 13 2013, 12:00 AM
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The thing that has sort of cured me of that thinking is that I've been playing in bands and on recordings for so long and I realize I don't ever even use half of what I know. So I figure if I sit down to learn something (for myself - not upcoming project/work stuff - that I'm very disciplined about) and I don't get through it or, even if I get bored and disinterested and end up not finishing(?) - it just doesn't stress me out. I figure I'll get something from some of it or do it later or just be led to something else. The only consistent thing about 'learning' music that I've found is that it's friggin' E N D L E S S ... ... ...
So Cos, if you do a Japanese scale lesson I can promise you three things ... 1) I will absolutely learn and utilize one scale for sure. 2) I will use that scale the rest of my playing days in some way or another. 3) I can ONLY guarantee that much and it doesn't bother me 
This post has been edited by klasaine: Apr 13 2013, 01:50 AM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Apr 13 2013, 03:51 PM
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QUOTE (Cosmin Lupu @ Apr 12 2013, 03:35 PM)  Hehe  I see you got the book!Great addition to your library, my Ro-Argentinian mate  I sometimes bump into this sort of stuff even now - but I figure it out and laugh at myself before it begins to try and take control of my head.. For instance, I am going around the idea of building up a Japanse mode based lesson that would depict the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. The purpose of the lesson is to describe the way in which you can illustrate a well known story, with the aid of music. Now, my greatest fear and the thing that kind of keeps me away from starting it, is a really stupid one: what if I won't be able to use all the Japanese modes that I have studied? I keep telling myself that I may even use just one and if the dynamics are right, it will do the job without trouble, but that little devil on my shoulder keeps telling me: 'What if you won't be able to make the best composition possible because you haven't used all you wanted to use?' Funny or not, this silly little thought, kept me from starting But I will just begin, regardless of what my mind says and we'll see what we get!yeah, this is a normal feeling and usually block us to be natural and enjoy what we do. I find that setting possible goals for every week, having an organize schedule that covers all the things that I must and have to do helps me to avoid that feeling when I go to sleep. The reason why is that I can't rest until everything is done, and the reality and it's impossible to have everything I want done in one day. It comes the night and my mind is all the time saying "you have to do that, you have to do this". This can be applied to work, to studying music, practicing, composing, etc... -------------------- My lessons
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Apr 15 2013, 02:18 PM
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Cosmin, practice sound epic and amazing organized in this way.
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Apr 15 2013, 04:11 PM
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I agree with Ben about the song in progress! It sounds beautiful, can't wait to hear the whole thing!
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Apr 15 2013, 04:23 PM
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Thank you gentlemen! I am eager as well and I hope I can come up with good stuff!
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