New Musicians! Don't Be Discouraged

Playing music is a skill. Like any skill, it develops through practice, repetition. The learning curve isn't very smooth. Sometimes your knowledge is on a steady increase, but sometimes it plateaus and you feel stuck. This is the learning process. Don't get discouraged when you hit one of those plateaus and you feel you can't get any better. Eventually your learning will get back on that upward path, but you have to stick with it.

Learning means creating more neurons and synopsis in your brain. You create them through repetition, the more you do something, the more neurons get created with that knowledge. The more neurons you create of that guitar riff or drum line, the greater the likelihood you will be able to play them again on demand, to the point you don't even have to try anymore, it just happens. Repetition is the key, sit there and do it.

There is no such thing as natural talent or ability. Eric Clapton wasn't born a great guitar player, he became great because he sat there and played and played and played until enough neurons were created in his brain to allow him to play the way he does. He enjoyed it enough to make the time to sit alone in his room and practice and build those neurons. If you enjoy playing enough, you will make the time to practice to cultivate those neurons.

Your goal needs to be playing the music. Don't play with the hopes of becoming rich and famous and getting noticed, because that is a major plateau that you don't really have control over.

Kudo's if you do make it big, but don't take the path of the musicians with that in mind, because it can lead to frustration and discouragement when you don't land the big record contract. And the chance of becoming big is very small for the average musician. If you can't make it into the limelight, that's fine, but make sure you can still enjoy being a musician even if it's sitting alone in your room with your instrument, or playing in some basement band.

The path of the musician ends when you die, there will always be plateaus and increases in learning along the way, but don't let circumstances of venue be the deciding factor in how good you get.

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