This is sage advice but in my experience, is too often used as a crutch to be lazy. And by my experience, I mean me; and by lazy, I mean more lazy than I am now.
More sage advice came from Rabbi Ben Hei Hei when he said: "According to the pain is the gain.". In my opinion, if you're trying to "get" someone's playing or a tune or whathaveyou, you most certainly do need to try and you should try and try and try again... and keep trying. The closer you get, the more you should try. Great players sweat the small stuff. Ask any of them. Unfortunately for us lazy folk, the path to the small stuff is through the big stuff (stupid big stuff). Here's my own sage-like advice: you will find your own nuances while in search for someone else's. Brian On Nov 3, 2:22 pm, 14strings <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anybody here get bit by the guitar flatpicking bug once in a > while? > > I'm presently on one such binge now. It's fun to jump ship once in a > while and makes coming back the mandolin fresh. > > Anyway I was watching Norman Blake's first Homespun guitar video and > he said something that I've heard before but the way he said it made > it finally sink in. He said, and I paraphrase "I want you to get the > idea of what I'm doing but I want you to do it your own way this way > you'll play the best of what YOU have to offer" > > In other words it's really difficult to get the EXACT nuance of > someone elses playing and should we even try? Or should we get the > general gist of it and play what comes naturally to us? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
