I just had a chat interaction with an advanced level guitarist. I offered to take this person to the next level, to which he rattled off some theory that he knew as if those basics were the end of all of theory, when in fact they are only the beginning. In fact for a real musician who is in the fire of musical culture, there are tons of guitar theory breakthroughs just waiting for someone who isn't adversarial and probably scared of their own possible greatness to find! Of course you don't need to be an Einstein for music theory breathroughs, but at least one must stop working against themselves and WANT to breakthrough. If you think that you have broken through, then you are not breaking through...the idea is to be in the now breaking through exponentially and spontaneously.
Guitar players are scared because they are afraid of how great they could be if they actually pulled it together on all levels. Most online guitarists are being conned by their patronizing viewers into a lullaby sleep mode. It's the lullaby of playing with continual repetition. We are taught to fit it and conform… be part of the group… be popular….. and that breakthrough greatness is lonely as well as irrelevant… that mediocrity and copying rules the day because it is safe... Eventually you are ready for them to tell you what notes to play and when to play them....then they will shackle you with unrealistic amounts of income and then overhead until you become part of the payola-esque process in which higher levels of breakthrough creativity are squashed in you BY YOU! Those fatcats are smart man.... lol
Mark my words, hear ye hear ye! Showing up to the Grammys to accept an award is death for some true musical warriors. This guy in the chat today said that he knows it all. I quickly proved that he didn't know it all, but here's the real burn..... The definition of the word theory starts with "a supposition or a system of ideas". So the real ultimate burn is that there is no way to complete the process of theory and to theorize means ultimately to simply suppose stuff. lol
Some of the Roman gladiator slaves were rich people who voluntarily allowed themselves to be enslaved in order to gain fame, glory, and status as an ultimate fighting champion. Do you understand the example of the Coliseum? The audience builds the "artist" up to full hypomania, but then the real nature of the audience comes out when they stop patronizing and turn their thumbs down to Ceasar ensuring your humiliating death.
Musicians also perform in "Coliseums" and they are also mentally duped by the audience, and in most cases, instead of the musicans being all fired up with creativity like they were at the start of their career, they are repeating 9th grade music because they need the tons of money that it now takes to maintain their unrealistic financial position. Money can work against you as well as help, and the audience can also hurt you as well as help. Never trust audiences or comments unless it is a bona fide Maestro in the appropriate circumstances for learning and growing.
So what is your goal? Do you want to sit around the campfire playing guitar while getting accolades from your peeps? Do you want to make records that other people would like so that you can get awards and money? Or.... Do you also want to be part the posse of guitar gladiator slaves that have recently been freed and are in a movement with me to free others....
When I mentioned the famous people that I've taught, and I point out flaws that they need help with such as the rampant "nervous twitchy" style of playing, it is to show you that you are no different than them. We are all dealing with the same issues including me… This is when the potential student replies, "Well then let me do all those things wrong so that I can get the girls and the money in the life that the famous person that you taught has."
This is a mental trap. Unfortunately other than getting help from a few independent sources such as myself, or some of the advanced programs at older music universities, the mentality of being "creatively curtailed and pacified into a corporate submissive mentality" through being enamored with comments, audiences clapping, girls being impressed, and awards, will rule your personal musical world.
Remember that some of those ancient Roman gladiators PAID to become gladiators by putting on the chains and living as a slave, and even risking death just to hear the cheering and become a star...
In conclusion the Spartacus of Guitar Blog says: Anyone who says that they know music theory does not.....
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