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Originally Posted by OliveCorduroy
With all that said, what has been the most successful for you and what do you like and dislike about the methods you have used?
Thanks, George
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I never had luck with school or the education system for that matter.
Doesn't work for me.
So I draw my own path, for better or worse.
50 years ago, you put the needle on the record, memorized 10 seconds, tried to find a way to reproduce the sound on your guitar. You would repeat the process until you heard something vaguely pleasing. At that moment you would go outside, find somebody else playing the guitar, show what you just learned, and learn from the guy too if he had something new.
After a while you were playing in a band, 10 years later you were owner of the studio, and 20 years later you were burned out.
So you quit.
The real difference between then and now :
- then, you had one record (well, 3 or 5, ok), so you had to go deep.
- now, you have immediate access to all the music you would want and then some, all the lessons, all the knowledge, so you go from one to another *in the hope* that finally you'll find *the* great whatever you're looking for.
And you never find it because what you need is plow deep inside yourself.
I'm grateful for all that knowledge we have at our fingertips.
But now you need the auto-discipline of a monk to progress.
Then, you had no choice, and I find it easier.
Or maybe I'm going old. So get off my lawn.