Ruphus -> RE: Motivation (Mar. 16 2018 7:25:38)
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ORIGINAL: jalalkun once I start playing the motivation packs me by itself, it doesn't need much. just the sound of the guitar is enough. finding passion in what you do is the greatest motivation you can have, and this applies to everything actually. playing with other people and gigging of course can be a motivation to get better, but the foundation of everything is passion, IMHO. Absolutely agreed. A flabby and dull set of strings on my favorite guitar resulted in months of lost motivation until I swapped strings yesterday. Indicating how much sound and tactility matter to me, even when mainly just working on technique. However an instrumental career with either little of good practicing or wrong method of practicing can be counterproductive to efforts through passion. Probably like you, I was and still am drawn to the guitar by its enchanting characteristics. And for the first 15 years or more me was not practicing at all, but just plucking away. Pleasure from the emerging sound was great and so was creativity. Accidentally much of technique (other than barré grabbing, which was plain wrong from start) was good too, until one day I saw a wrong example of posture on TV and thought that is how things should be. That was when a self-impairing odyssey set in. Optimal in terms of satisfaction and efficiency should be a pairing of passion for the guitar with ergonomic and systematic method of playing. I admire individuals who either started out in an inspiring natural ambience like in a Gitano family (or for classical equivalent, in a house like of the Romeros), or with a good teacher. Can you say easy and rewarding progress! - Having said that, I have seen an autodidact rocketing up to virtuosity as a rock guitarist in only 1,5 years, and also other cases where talents gained quite something on their own. But that seems not how things develop typically. After players´ decades of invested time on auto didactical path (do like you feel) inhibiting technical habits and one-trick ponies appear to rather be occurring than evenly spread and advanced skills. Inherited wisdom of hundreds of years and modern didactics seem a wise way of matching one´s passion. Just my two pesos to passion and reward.
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