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I write in a DAW but picked up a guitar to expand my soundset as guitar, like brass or woodwinds, are not replicated well in software. As a keyboardist, I can play alright to write on but with guitar you can get away with strumming new or different chords which gives me new sounds, and I can then build songs from them. For some reason, the guitar is more immediate in being able to put down what is in my head, and the more theory/chords I've learned on guitar, the more songs I've been able to create. Hope that makes sense. |
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Any instrument can do that, of course, I think people just gravitate toward ones that appeal to them. I'm taking up cello next.
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I've just listened to a couple of tracks by Toby Walker on Youtube and he is a superb guitarist/singer. Really, really good. I know I will never be able to be that good.
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To paraphrase Luke 4:23, "Musician, be thyself." If you believe you can't, you won't. If you suspend disbelief and venture forth in good faith, you will.
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You don't need to be that good. You just need to be better than you were a day or a month ago. Or not.
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Another version of the story has Stravinsky in place of Ravel, but both are apocryphal.
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IOW, you don't "know" any such thing. Unless perhaps you are already 93 years old and have been given 6 months to live.... It's never a good idea to compare yourself with anyone, especially not anyone you think is better than you. You're not seeing the work and time they put in to get where they are, you're just seeing the end result. Or rather, you're seeing them at a stage on the same journey, many miles ahead. He has a head start, same as you have a head start on beginners who started after you. You're on the same road, and you can get there, same as he did. It just might take you a while. As they say: don't think about the destination, or the time it takes. Enjoy the journey, and the scenery where you are now. Just keeping putting one foot in front of the other, at your own pace. Or st down and take a rest if you want. It's not a race.
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Thanks for the encouragement but I'm ok really. Even if I can never be that good it's still my main hobby and I prefer to try to learn guitar over watching television or other passive activities.
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Which makes it important (not trivial) - but equally important that you enjoy doing it, without being concerned that you're "not good enough" (by any measure).
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