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Just to be contrarian...
I started to play in about the same time period as others have mentioned. Even figured out how to rig a turntable to play at 1/2 speed, so everything could be slowed down and dropped an octave, to try to "figure things out". Searched out lots of material on how to play. Took lessons from a wide variety of instructors, tried ear training for a long time, etc., etc.... Try as I might, I just couldn't get it. Anything beyond simple I-IV-V strumming and very simple single note melody, and I was lost. Just couldn't translate what I heard to what I needed to do on the fretboard. Was akin to attempts to learn a foreign language. I knew the words, and the construction, but just couldn't assemble it into much of anything coherent. I could understand it, but not speak it. Same with music - after these many years, I've accepted that I am just not going to ever "get it". But, I have really enjoyed being able to play those pieces that I learned by rote. I like the process of tackling a difficult piece, taking it measure by measure and eventually getting up to speed with it. And yes, there is even, once in a great while, a glimmer where what I hear the original composer doing is different than the tab, and I can adjust to make my playing closer to his/hers. Or a section is just too far beyond my abilities, so I can simplify it to something that I can play, yet fits the piece. But that is the exception, rather than the rule. So, I've accepted that I'll never be a "musician", and will always remain a "player". But that is fine, and with the explosion in available material in the last decade or so, I'll never run out of challenges to master. |
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