What has the guitar taught YOU?

[Monkus]

I've learned that:

three notes played well, is better than a hundred that you can't hear,

creative differences are a good thing,

guitar zen can be achieved by yourself, but its way better when experienced with others,

A guitarist can make any guitar sound good,

Silence from your audience can be better than polite applause,

There is always something else to learn.

 

[MAXIFUNK]

That even a little improvement can go a long way.

That what you thing you like and loves changes as your skills improve or mind opens up to new things.

That there is no right or wrong way to do or try to learn something try them all until you knows what works best for you. (THIS IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS FOR ME DAILY!!)

 

[Eric]

That there is no right or wrong way to do or try to learn something try them all until you knows what works best for you.

Very true. I'm finding the same thing.

 

[street music]

YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY, even if is just chords and a few notes. It's more soul and heart than a non-player ever could feel when you make the strings ring on your own.

 

[aeolian]

Guitar playing taught me that the guitar player always gets the girl.

Except it never worked for me!

Sometimes you launch into a song with the band, and when the last chord faded away, you look at each other and everyone thought : "Wow!" That is what guitar actually taught me.

 

[duhvoodooman]

Humility!

+100

 

[jpfeifer]

This is a great thread. I posed something like this a long time ago, about the lessons you have learned from music about life in general. I think that it is a great question to ask yourself from time to time.

What has guitar taught me?

- That there are no shortcuts in life. Hard work and dedication are the keys to mastering anything, whether that's guitar, computer programming, or whatever.

- That you need to remember to enjoy the journey, not just the destination. Too many times people get hung up on this idea "making it", and forget to have fun making music. I didn't realize this until I got too old to make it, that I gave up on that idea and focused on having fun playing and learning new things. This is when I really started to appreciate it for what it was in my life and learned alot more, and became a better player.

- It taught me too never stop learning. Guitar playing taught me that I'm much more happy when I have something new to learn, or work on. When I stop growing I get bored.

- It taught me that it's often more important to be a good listener than a good talker. Good listening is one of the most important things to do when playing with other musicians, and often one of the most important things to do when dealing with people.

- It taught me that music is as much of a language as anything else. I never really understood that until recently. The more that I look at improvisation and musical styles the more I can see that it's all just a form of communication.

--Jim

 

[captaincommander]

The more I learn, the less I know.

The less I know, the more I understand :rockon

 

[kiteman]

The less I know, the more I understand :rockon

I understood that. :dude