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I dont really care. I´m happy with where I am and where I´m going. I started playing music when I was 8, so flamenco is just another kind of music and I´m glad I did what I did.
I know it sounds hippy happy , but its the way I feel.
On the other hand, I wish I had started saving money many years ago
I dont really care. I´m happy with where I am and where I´m going. I started playing music when I was 8, so flamenco is just another kind of music and I´m glad I did what I did.
I know it sounds hippy happy , but its the way I feel.
On the other hand, I wish I had started saving money many years ago
Ander's you've got the right idea!
I started playing guitar when I was fifteen, and flamenco at 45 (two years ago). I've made more progress these past two years that in the entire 30 years before. I'm happy I started Flamenco period. Who cares how old you are? It's the journey, not the destination isn't it?
Well I started guitar when I was 12, pick on electric, and heard flamenco when I was 15. But I wish I had started learning to PLAY flamenco when I first started. I started acutally trying to play flamenco at 21. I feel my right hand is about 10 years behind my left hand in terms of development. But I feel it slowly catching up.
I started with 6. But it depends on how much you practice and hoew much you like it. If your parents just want it..you can start with 1 and become nothing.
There's also the raw unadulterated fact, that some people got it, and some don't. The name mentioned yesterday "Stevie Ray Vaughn" simply had it. No amount of practice can give that to you.
Practice can bring out your potential, but the truth is we aren't all going to become Gerardo, or Paco, etc. So being the best we can is about all we can do I think.
I use to aspire to be like Al Dimeola, and developed pretty good technique, etc. But sitting near the front row at one of his concerts enlightened me to the fact, that simply put - He has a gift, that I don't have. :)
I started playing seriously at 8 yrs...and listened to flamenco when I was 3... that must make me AMAZING! hmmm, at least now I am getting the chance to play for singers here, they tell me to go practise more.. (sigh) I also lost the tip of my fefthand middle finger a few years back which makes it harder to do that stretch to the 4th fret holding down a b chord.. makes for a sad bulerias!
hi anders actually my finger accident had nothing to do with guitarmaking or woodwork. It was in a door! so, with all my working with dangerous machinery it had to be something else! go to work, its safe! my motto is that every home should have a guitar so at whatever age, young, old, someone picks it up...and gets the buzz.
yeah i started playing flamenco almost two years ago at 37 but i tell you what, when i was a kid, i was too busy throwing rocks at cars, skateboarding, then later getting high, hanging out in parking lots and chasing girls to be bothered with serious hours inside practicing.
i'm more focused and dedicated than ever. now if i could just stop all this work and travel crap to have an unbroken month of practice, i'd be happy. i figure in the last five months, i've only been able to be at home and practice for two of them.
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me too 
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