Niklas -> Appreciating real work and tallent (Sep. 24 2006 17:54:22)
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I was at a part a few days ago with just some friends from all around gathering to have a good time. Anyway, there was one fellow who I had never met brought a guitar with him. I naturally was interested to see the guy playing. Well, after a while the guy picks up the guitar (steel string) and strums a few chords. The guitar is completely out of tune. No problem, he starts tuning it. Well, he tries to tune it... The guitar is completely out of tune when he starts playing. Ok so he starts playing some Finnish pop song and he's singing along. Guitar nothing close to tuned and he's not a fantastic singer either... But what happens? Everybody turns their head to look at this guy (who actually was a realy nice guy in the end) and starts listening. The untuned guitar realy fustrates me and I find it hard to listen to the whole show, being a bit of a perfectionst. But everyone else could not take their eyes off this guy. He's just playing Dminor, C etc and trying to sing in tune. He finnishes the song and i'm not exactly expecting the crowd to go wild, but instead everybody goes "Wow!". I look in amazement as people start complimenting the guy "Damn you can play!", "Wow, you mean you have only been playing for 2 years?". Well he continues to play during the evening and people (girls especially [:D]) are loving the guy. Well all this made me acctually a little mad, here i've been working my *** off for the last 2½ years to get my arpeggios to sound half decent and some guy who has figured out 3 chords gets a standing ovation with a untuned guitar and a less than decent singing voice. Well I guess that the average person without much musical knowledge and ability will simply be fooled by something like this. Looking at some comments on some videos on youtube makes me think, why is it that people don't apreciate real skill? Not saying that anyone should apreciate MY skill since I don't have much of it [:D] but what i'm saying is that people who work like mad to become a good guitarist or pianist or anything realy are too often forgotten. Turn on a mtv and you will see what i mean. For example this certain young woman who's father happens to own a certain massive hotel chain and who just released her first album. This person can't sing, her voice has been digitally tuned or what ever for the cd, she has not written a single song and has not worked a day in her life. And yet she is famous and rich. Unfair eh? For some reason people don't just appreciate real work and tallent, and it annoyes the hell out of me. Thanks for reading. I just needed to get that out of my system [:D] Feel free to comment Niklas
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