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.)
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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!