Are the mass of guitarists seeking the wrong treasure? Spartacus of guitar says yes!
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Patronizing compliments keep the mass of guitarists in perpetual desire and illusion. Even when a simple observation is pointed out, mediocrity defends itself with the philosophy that, "It feels good to me".
I first started really making money as a guitar teacher is when I graduated from teaching kids in the building, to teaching adults that I got from ads in the Village Voice. I asked my Dad, who was a concert violinis, what I can do with these adult students many of which could play the guitar better than me. He said that I look older so no one will know that I'm only 17, and since students are already in the mindset of looking for an authority figure, as long as I realize that I probably know more than them musically, or something they don't know due to my many years in music boarding school. He said to have fun trying different creative exercises to fill the curriculum until I could actually play better.....
A young man came by for lessons and I had him close his eyes, put his fingers anywhere they felt like going on the fretboard, and pick whatever string he felt the way he felt like picking it. The object was to induce the "musical experience" by hearing the sounds as if they were classical contemporary improv. Well he loved it and he kept coming back. lol :-) His family was sending checks every two weeks, so I kept indulging him because all he wanted to do was for me to sort of help him meditate and do a sort of Ouija board way of playing. Like a Zen thing... remember I was a kid… LOL then the student told me that he was going back home for vacation. I started freaking out because the guy still couldn't actually play one song even after all those months, and I figured his parents would stop the checks for sure when they saw that he could not actually play a song. So each lesson until vacation I would try to talk him into learning chords and a song, to which he kept putting me off.
Finally it was week before vacation and I said, "Look you have got to learn a song, or your parents are not going to send money!"
He opened his eyes wide and yelled, "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND MY MUSIC. MY MUSIC IS FEELING MUSIC."
At that point I figured it was the end of the checks LOL however the lesson I learned was worth thousands of times the money that could have lost. The lesson is that it is far too easy to regress into your subjective feelings about what you are playing, rather than facing the realities of what is actually coming out of your instrument.
Sure, when I'm riding the train I can close my eyes and hear a Symphony of sounds in complete surroundsound and feel sound too. lol So what then is the reason for making good music? There are plenty of recordings to listen and feel...... Are we playing more for our own personal feeling and gratification? Or for a knowledgeable sophisticated audience? Or are we playing for the few who have mastered the skill you express to achieve? Whatever it is fine, but avoid mixing them up, because when you do it becomes less coherent all the way down the production line. In other words, make up your mind when you are singing in the shower or performing for the Queen, and stop making excuses for not perfecting your skill like, "I just want to strum around the campfire" when you secretly have a burning desire to shred in a stadium....
If you want to feel good, drink a beer and play your feeling music. lol If you want to be a real musician, then screw your feelings and your mental illness of puffing up over mediocrity enabling fans and friends who are only trying to control you with their unsubstantiad subjected uninformed comments, and start caring about what is really possible musically. I mean fluid, conscious, comprehensive, coherent self-expression in full fluency of the language of music. Actually meaning what you say musically because you in fact understand what you were saying musically, instead of copying gibberish and feeling "tasteful" because you're finally feeling some of the common tones even in the demi-tones while bending.
The best drummer that I had the amazing privilege to study up close and personal, Buddy Rich, said that his reason for being frank in rehearsals rather than patronizing to musicians feelings because his focus was on the audience.
So you were feeling. Big deal! You don't even need music for that. The question is not how you respond to your own music, but how the truly knowledgeable and experienced musicians critiques your music, or how even technology rates he aspects of your playing. Any monkey can clap for you. They don't even have to be human, they can literally be monkeys (I like to sing to dogs) lol and if that's all you REALLY WANT then ignore your studies and the realities about guitar and let it be what it is - speculative fun... But don't try to play it off like you're the real deal, only because playing it off prevents you from how easy it could be starting now to be the REAL DEAL within objectively control parameters of quality, however simple the presentation. In other words you don't have to be advanced to be perfect, but you do have to not be in musical illusion.
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