sorin popovici -> RE: well ,should I say again ..this is not gonna sound good (Jan. 2 2006 22:49:50)
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thanks for the replies.I observed that if my post is very long ,usually i'm beeing misunderstood ..so I'll try this marketing aproach "keep i short" I never said I'll leave school ...and it will be stupid to do so now. I said that after I finish , my options are : 1. be hired by a company and forget about guitars probably for five years or so. 2. get a music school diploma and in the meantime try to live by getting a badly played job. why this are my choices?cause i'm not that good enough either to make music or to be that good of an engineer to make easy money. U cant chose flamenco here (I can not chose , cause I cant play it either). Flamenco is here a weird thing that classical guitar players play for encore. And if u play classical things life is not good either,the people who are really good at it usually emigrate because they are poorly payed and they work as teachers here(but teaching here though it can cover the food and other normal expenses ,maybe a internet bill or a phone bill ....but u'll never get the guitar u want or the other things that u think u need). Other fingerstlye music [:D] is folk music (but u have to sing [:D],and even if u do .. u need a couple of years at least to make a dolar). Flo ...the choice u have is good but it's not posible here ,I played in my bedroom for 7 years ..I got to play in front of somebody for 4 years to get somewhere.That's what's a music school offers ...exams and little concerts that are preparing u for playing to stand up . [jokes ] I played twice in front of people.Once played cause my 1st teacher, an old fellow that is some sort of freelance composer now(he writes negatives for people ..he is a self taught piano and guitar player(well...he is in a way a fingerstyle guitar player,but ...he is not that good,he thinks Carcassi's method is classical music,he taught me that...but he find out from me that ,that is classical music for didactical purposes.).Anyway,played gavotte en rondeau and a little solea.After the "recital" ...in the audience mainly kids and parents ...a parent came to me and said he really liked that mexican stuff.Well, after some years of non playing guitar(he was a player sometime in his life) I might be him,who knows? I was to all the classical guitar concerts I found out about in my town,and once took the train for 200km for seeing the national classical guitar competition www.chitara.ro .But that was mind blowing,seen some greeks ...oh,boy...u cant compete with that without a music school.Seen a guy playing the whole bach suite no.4 for lute ,also Sueno (tarrega) and smth I dont remember now. The price for the ticket was 2 Euros.And he played well...I assure you. So..without a music school , u got to be good...it is not a big surprise to me that Grisha also plays classical and that he emigrated. So ..I dont know ...maybe as a hobby u can do that here,but Grisha's (and he's from Russia ...and I assume that things are a tiny little bit better there)model I think says it all ...as for how good must u be ,to succeed. Flo....be glad u got away [:D] at the proper time.If u have left just a year later...well,your chances to be a good player would have been slightly diminshed. I cant imagine how determined was Grisha,but in a way his choice was a little easier,because he chose at a very early age without knowing it (his father probably helped a little.I'm not saying that he had to do less work,on the contrary ...probably he had a very hard to please teacher sometimes) My choice is harder though than his ,cause I got to make it at an age where the responsabilities of such a gesture are pretty evident.I can not say things like "well...that's all I know ,I have no other choice" Anyway , I deleted the post ...cause I also asked somebody else, and he said that when I'm asking for people for an opinion , they usually have one and they respond if the answer will not make them assume a great responsability.That's why people say "stay in school",cause if u dont ..and u fail , and they will want 2 see u in 10 years ..they will feel somehow responsable for that advice,and no one wants to feel guilt.So ...that guy told me that though I can ask a teacher if that piece is played good or not ....I should not ask for someone to assume my responsability,that is my job. So thanks for the replies,I'll do whatever responsable thing I will think is not that risky ...and hope for the better [:D]. These jokes,I intended to be more funny than this..but ... [/jokes] haha ha ...I said short post.
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