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Old 07-30-2013, 10:48 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Gavin B. View Post
I'm going to sound like a nagging schoolmaster, but learn to sight read music and study basic music theory. Nearly every great musician has done this, with the rare exception of a handful of musical savants like Coltrane. But you're probably not John Coltrane, no matter how many people tell you that you're a musical genius.

Seek out a musical mentor, even if you have to pay that person for lessons. I moved 900 miles away to a strange city at age 19 to take guitar lessons from a player I admired. I drove a cab & lived in a hovel for 2 years because I was spending half my income on guitar lessons.

I never became rich or famous but I learned everything I know about music over the course of 120 lessons from Eric Schoenberg. You never discover how ignorant you really are until you take lessons from a musical master.
You'd suggest, to someone who's new to an instrument, to learn the most boring and stuff portions of the art first?

Would you suggest someone learning to speak English start with grammar?
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