i could become a much better musician if i just let myself do a few hard scary things that i'd start out bad at but get much better at with practice
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What are the hard scary things?
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trying to play along with songs is one example; i want to be able to play stuff by ear and i've never let myself even try to practice until pretty recently
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @mattgoldenberg and @Artiphon
Main instruction is: spend 100s of hrs "jamming with experts" which is Victor Wooten's description of how to learn a language natively. That's how babies learn their native language.
For music, that means, put on songs and play along. A lot. (And no wrong notes.)
True that not many things are easy immediately. But it really doesn't need to be scary. Unless you're judging yourself too hard every note.
Do you play along with stuff you like enough to hum, sing, or tap your fingers to? Might be more fun.
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Ha, it’s neat how different people have differently-shaped comfort zones.
I want to be able to play a handful of songs *not*-by-ear, but devoured from paper in their full composer-designed flourishing glory, and for me that’s the hard and scary thing 😃
(I play ~only by ear)
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my parents made me do that as a child so i got that one down already 😅
good luck!
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