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playing music got horribly in the way of my appreciation of music for years ... I have either solved the problem or found a way to live with it or else I am hopelessly deluded ... But I DO enjoy music again

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NumberNineDream

it does give you the feeling of being an alien to the subject. i think it's greater to experience it from within.
well i'm 18 too and love listening to music but don't play any instrument, and it does bother me. like i love to hear it but i can't create anything like it. i feel so paralyzed sometimes.
it's been a week trying to learn the guitar. I've had 2 years of learning the piano when i was a kid, but felt obliged to do it so i began skipping classes. and now i do regret not continuing with it.

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Shrar

i get the same with most things; playing instruments, writing songs/stories, painting/sketching.... i always hate whatever i produce so it feels kinda insulting to the relative consept to even try

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Dr.Tchock

It won't hurt...unless you become a Dream Theater fan. Pretty big risk if you ask me.

Jsung

I don't feel like anyones done a decent job of explaining but heres in a nutshell:

You don't have to play music to be a music lover, but when you learn an instrument, you can appreciate it better and unless you are obssessed - you very rarely become a bitch about the music you listen to, and if you do pick out the crappy technicalities, its fairly easy to overlook it or just change songs if you just don't like it. Orchestral pieces, more compositional pieces and music in general has a different (in my case more appealing) sound to it after you learn an instrument or 3.

someonecompletelyrandom

Great way to make friends!

mr dave

especially when it's a re-hash of what asshat said better than any other post in this thread.


just re-iterate. you don't NEED to play an instrument to love music, but depending on your personality there's a good chance it will provide another perspective to appreciate the music from that you wouldn't have otherwise. how you use that perspective is ultimately up to you.


@GB - in regards to the hendrix 'shredding' vs. traditional shredders i think the main issue is intent. hendrix never wrote pieces to showcase his chops, when he took off and started shredding he was quite literally taking off - just like when Coltrane was trying to talk to god on 'Interstellar Space'. it's more of a meditative thing, your conscious mind more or less shuts off and you just go. there's no thought of what mode to play what scale in next or any of that (which is clear as day when you check out a petrucci video).

you're right that vai gets unfairly lumped into the soulless category, i'm pretty sure zappa wouldn't have bothered with him otherwise. 'sisters' is actually the last song i tried learning before going total improv (i really hope i still have my copy of 'passion and warfare', going to have to do little digging in a bit)

plus i thought the bulk of the dragonforce fanbase were kids who played way too much guitar hero 3

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Jsung

good job on bringing up something completely unrelated to this topic. I don't post to be pretty with everyone.

no one really wants to wade through paragraphs or text - i just gave the whole topic a summary. Hence the clever usage of the term, nutshell.

Urban Hat€monger ?

With an attitude like that nobody will read your posts anyway.

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mr dave

then you should probably be on twitter instead of a forum.

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