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Things You Should Be Doing - #3 (Play Things That are Hard) (Patreon)

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2023-02-04 15:00:04
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A common thing I hear is "That's too hard for me, it's past my level". While this might seem like it makes sense, in the guitar/music world it is unfortunately the wrong mentality. This is because the only way to get to that higher "level" is by trying things that are past your level.

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Things You Should Be Doing - #3 (Play Things That are Hard)

A common thing I hear is "That's too hard for me, it's past my level". While this might seem like it makes sense, in the guitar/music world it is unfortunately the wrong mentality. This is because the only way to get to that higher "level" is by trying things that are past your level. Play Things That Are Hard (0:00) The Wrong Mentality (0:38) Me as an Example (2:00) Attempting The Difficult Thing (4:03) Never Thinking Something Is Impossible (5:24) All Of Your Favorite Players Do This (6:36) Don't Wait Until You're Magically Better (7:24)

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Tom

Exactly, that applies to life in general too, if you're always comfortable, that means you're not improving.

Dustin Burt

Guilty of this with (popular guitar player). I will play little parts by ear and jam along with no problems, but not sit down and commit to playing the songs the way they do it.

LoG's Guitar Extravaganza
>>101164282

It's not necessarily something you have to do all of the time. It's only when you're confronted with something that you really want to learn, but feels out of reach of your ability. You always want to give a strong attempt at learning that thing, as learning these difficult things will no doubt make you a stronger player.

Oskar Westerstrand

I’ve done this a lot. It’s been all kinds of things and preen stuff played on a different instrument but there has always been the same pattern. Namely that as soon as I’m about to get it up to speed, like really have it down, I lose interest in it and start with some new thing. I need to learn to follow through I guess.

smor729

Been working on the brother to brother solo on and off for over a year now. When I started I could play slightly cleanly with weird economy picking technique I wasn't actively thinking about at maybe 80 BPM. I'm up to being able to play it fully cleanly at 115 all alternate picking now. It's still not fast but it's definitely a speed that felt impossible a year ago.

LoG's Guitar Extravaganza
>>101166743

Having a shifting interest is a normal thing and isn't that big of a deal. However if it is routinely preventing you from getting something down, especially when you are perfectly capable of getting it down, that can be an issue. I think it's always healthy to look at learning things as a fun thing to do while simultaneously being something that upgrades your playing. The having fun part is awesome but so is upgrading your playing, and if you move on too early you're missing out on the upgrading part.

LoG's Guitar Extravaganza
>>101174374

Nice! A huge thing so many people don't really consider is that is ok for things to take a while. Too many people give up so early on in the process because they think they should go from nothing to playing a part perfectly in a week. Sometimes that is the case but sometimes it's not. How long it takes shouldn't really be the concern, it should simply be a matter of "what do I need to do to get this down".

Torm Ovst

So motivating! This motivates me to give Neon by John Mayer a try!