sylnau wrote:Best advise I found yet is from Neil Young:
"JO: Any words of encouragement for young players?
NY: Just start playing. Learn a few chords and play with someone who's maybe a little better than you. Don't learn from a book any more than you have to. Learning from other people is what music is all about. Pick up things and put them back together yourself. Use them to write new songs, to make new sounds, new chord changes, new time changes. Just create. Even if it's all shit, just keep creating. Pretty soon it'll be great. "
never pass up an opportunity to play with someone else.
Yeah... that's my problem at the moment. I don't need books or teacher... just need to play. I don't have a band a the moment.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." --John Cage
sylnau wrote:Best advise I found yet is from Neil Young:
"JO: Any words of encouragement for young players?
NY: Just start playing. Learn a few chords and play with someone who's maybe a little better than you. Don't learn from a book any more than you have to. Learning from other people is what music is all about. Pick up things and put them back together yourself. Use them to write new songs, to make new sounds, new chord changes, new time changes. Just create. Even if it's all shit, just keep creating. Pretty soon it'll be great. "
never pass up an opportunity to play with someone else.
Yeah... that's my problem at the moment. I don't need books or teacher... just need to play. I don't have a band a the moment.
when you dont have people to play with that is the time to study and become better at knowing your instrument. being comfortable with where you are on the fretboard really helps when playing with people.
Fo sho', but it's good to know how to read other musicians and have a give-and-take. I know this guy who is an amazing guitarist, but he's really tough to play with because he writes his songs note for note and won't follow a chord structure or key, just what sounds good(I'm sure it's in key, he's not too outside the box). Whereas, I'm the exact opposite.
BOOM-SHAKALAKALAKA-BOOM-SHAKALAKUNGA
Behndy wrote:i don't like people with "talent" and "skills" that don't feel the need to cover their inadequacies under good time happy sounds.
" - smile_man
