rustydusty
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I believe that it's not important how you play it, but how it sounds. If you play a good classical piece on the guitar and it sounds right, the way you achieve the results are what works best for you...
Well, we disagree, but the majority of UU players probably agree with your opinion. Perhaps it’s just we oldies who think as I do. I think many of us were taught that there are rules and correct ways to do somethin’. But if you play the way you prefer, and I play the way that I prefer, then, by today’s standards, we are both playin’ okay (Yay!).I believe that it's not important how you play it, but how it sounds. If you play a good classical piece on the guitar and it sounds right, the way you achieve the results are what works best for you...
Oh my, yes. It's such a lot of work. I mean, learning it correctly is a lot of work too, but undoing all of the baggage that you've encumbered yourself with by not learning correct technique in the first place, uuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnhhhhh.It’s really, really difficult and boring to fix all the mistakes one learned in the past. Learn stuff correctly or just go on playing it as it is. Bah!
Me too, but I’ve gone back to my other stuff, and I’m having a good time with it. I don’t think I was meant to be a guitarist. I’m much more comfortable with my Mandolins and my Irish Tenor Banjo. I like to play with fifths tuning better too.I've had to relearn and break so many bad habits, I'm good at it. Relearning is what I do best.
YouTube And no worries!What does YT stand for? I didn’t answer your banjo question in “other instruments“ because I didn’t know what you wanted.
What's the hurry?
I think Rllink was responding to this:I don’t understand. What’s what hurry?
and my follow up reply to that.Dispite what I said last time. I’m still pounding away at the guitar. I’m clearin’ up some of the old stuff, but I’m also enjoying my other instruments. There is some progress, but it’s agonizingly slow. However, that’s what I bought the big, clumsy thing for - to see if I could learn to play it, and I guess I sorta am . . .
I get frustrated sometimes. But I remind myself that we are not in a race and there is no finish line to cross. No matter how quickly or how agonizingly slowly we learn, it is all the same.I think Rllink was responding to this:
and my follow up reply to that.
@Rllink you're right, there's no hurry. In fact, there's a lot of putting time into process, and you cannot hurry that, especially because you have to train muscles, train your ear, train your brain to whole new ways of being used, and that only occurs through repetition. But from a beginner's perspective, it can feel frustrating to hit a plateau. I suspect a lot of people that want to learn more than a few basic chords and strums give up once they hit the first or second plateau of learning to play; it takes patience and perseverance to continue to improve.
I find it incredibly frustrating that I know how something should sound and I don't know how to make my fingers make that sound. I try not to feel frustrated or overwhelmed, because I understand, logically, that I am a beginner, I've hardly been doing this any length of time, and learning a new skill is not instant gratification; but my heart doesn't always want to listen to that.
I find it incredibly frustrating that I know how something should sound and I don't know how to make my fingers make that sound.
I played badly last night, ploverwing, and again today. I just can’t seem to find the strings. I’m back to position scales now — ahhh, me. Again, I don’t think guitar is my thang . . .
This. Definitely. No, I do recognize that I can't replicate someone else's playing in any exact measure, although I can try to emulate the musicality that they achieve (eventually, I'm still struggling with mechanics - this goes with both guitar and ukulele). That's definitely encouraging to hear that people with more experience still struggle, too. It's hard to watch amazing players and think that there's any ever chance to get even somewhat competent. I mean, it's also kind of discouraging that 5th year players still stumble with the same nonsense that I am, but I'm assuming it's at a much lower rate, lol.If you are talking about creating a good tone consistently across all fingers; then it is definitely hard. Even early-intermetiate players make mistakes in tone production (based on listening to 5th-year guitar students on Delcamp). As a beginner, I'd play a (short) piece all nice and good, then one of my notes come out sounding too different (compared with the same note from another finger).
Actually, I've started focusing on mainly exercises this week (I'd been lax on that, treating my pieces as exercises), to try and build those skills at an even more basic level, and I can feel a difference in these exercises from when I first tried them a couple of months ago, so there's definitely been some progress (yay!!).
I’m TRYING to play it because I bought it to see if I could learn to play one. I keep givin’ the darn thing up because I don’t like to fail, and I don’t understand why I haven’t achieved more success, and, even though I understand how to play it, I just can’t seem to accomplish it.