What do you wish you would’ve done differently?

[Boudoir Guitar]

(1). done way more singing for ear training purposes - some songs songs, but mostly along with my playing of scales, arpeggios, etc.; singing a lick back after playing it, etc.

(2). Learned way more songs.

(3). Made sure my noodling had some sort of harmonic context until my noodling got structured enough that I could give it its own harmonic context and/or hear the harmonic context in my head as I noodled. Still struggle with this one a bit.

Very little of it has anything to do with physical technique -- almost all of it is related to ear training in one way or another, really.

 

[GTR37]

Absolutely zero point in being sad about something in the past, there ain't shit you can do about it now.

Unless it's something with a way to fix now, in those rare occasions.

The usefulness of this thread is helping peeps that are just starting out, I 'spose?

100% I openly embrace my shitty playing daily

 

[GTR37]

There was no public use internet or any of the online stuff available back when I learned. That came much, much later. If I had access to what we have today back then, you would never have been able to get me out of the bedroom. I would have been permanently planted there in front of a computer with a guitar in my hands.

That’s very true
And the reason why you see these crazy virtuoso guitar players at 15 now , because there is so much great tuition
I remember I had some bad teachers
One jazz guy that would smack you if your wrist came fwd in front of the neck
Here I am trying to play some wide stretch Lynch stuff while keeping my wrist tucked behind the neck , honestly I ended up hurting my hand
And quit about 2 weeks later

 

[la szum]

I don't know. I think we are running the risk of overvaluing what is (overly) accessible
today, and don't realize that a lot of these epic teenage wankers can't write a hook,
song, groove, or melody to save their life. Literally!

Somehow the medium has gone from a 10 minute Classical Suite, down to a 3 minute
Pop Song, and now to a 30 Second Instagram Video or Youtube Short.

Is this really "progress."

Like a Bow and Arrow, sometimes you have to go back in order to go forward.

 

[Eldorado]

I would not have put my guitar away for 20+ years after our high school era band split up.
I would not have then sold my most excellent Bassman head and cab for $125 to buy a sewing machine for my wife.