I have been playing guitar for 1 year now, and now it has been that guitar is being playing me. I learnt a lot from guitar playing. It keeps you within yourself. It was this passion which treated my blogomania.
Psychology of Guitar Playing
There are certain psychological conditions, which I think we can fall prey to, that make our progress as guitarists and musicians much more difficult than it needs to be. One of these conditions is the chronic mood of doubt, which manifests itself as the spoken or unspoken question of "Do I have any Natural Talent for this? Can I learn to play guitar? Am I kidding myself here, thinking I can learn to play like these obviously talented players I hear, who make me feel so inadequate? Do I have to stick at these points? Could I play as good as Jimi Hendrix or Slash or Eric Clapton?? " Boy, I spent a lot of time feeling like that. Leave all the big names...my 1st sir of guitar...Suraj Sir, he plays guitar so good..I wished I could play like him..These things persist even if you become okay sort of guitar..For example I saw, Stevie Ray Vaughan playing paganini in Crossroads...it was amazing and mind-blowing.So would I'll be able to play it...Could I play November Rain on guitar...Who knows...but we have to follow the concept what vedas elucidate: "chare veti"...that is "move on".
Well back to point of natural talent...I do think there is something called natural talent..but natural talent is not good enough..guitar wants practise...Practise can be less if you have natural talent. My 1 friend don't have pinky finger but still he plays, hats off to him for his such a great passion...
After learning from Suraj Sir, I started downloading videos from the internet and didn't want to share it on our local-network, because I didnt wanted others to see it..But thanks to Himanshu(Dohte is what he is called, my good friend) he corrected my character flaw.
Besides, my fondest desire as a child was to be play a guitar and to become a pilot..Thnx to god for fulfilling my 1 wish, and see how great his greatness is...he gives when no one excepts..I left the hope of learning guitar..But it is HIM who when decides give you everything when he feels right..
Other factor is continuity . Continuity is important no matter how much time you give..
It took me a while to understand why all people who said they wanted to play the guitar didn't spend most of their day doing it. In starting few friends of mine said they will play guitar and rock this world, (ya in the start we meant the same..But alas this type of enthusiasm lasts in start only, in many cases. Like in our TIME class, teacher has said to work on vocab continuously but still sometime I work and sometime I note. One must not see that guitar playing is cool, but rather see whether he likes it or not. Or better he can continue or not??
I started the guitar in 5th semester, thanks to God that I found a person who gave me my 1st guitar teacher's contact... I asked him(just on a way on lanka, as he was carrying guitar), who was carrying guitar -- "from whom does he learns guitar" and luckily I got 1st proper teacher for guitar. Earlier I used to play15-30 minutes a day and as time went by practise increased. Learnt 1 song in 1-2 months...Song was Chura Liya hai...a nice melodic Hindi Song...So what we need is becoming patient, learn 1 but properly...slowly .. according to your capability ... n remain happy rather than frustated..be bit tolerant..
Seeing people starting the guitar
I saw people learning from Suraj Sir, they "tend" to do everything right, from sitting comfortably with the instrument, to positioning and using the fingers. Some people do everything wrong, and must be shown, painstakingly and minutely, exactly what to do. So go on, ask teacher and just give time..:)
rest leave to god...
Dear blog, you are now not a just for a change blog, because I have not yet left you after starting to play guitar .. :)..niether my guitar playing is just for a change...
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Thanks to my guitar..:)
Kinshuk Chandra Saturday, April 18, 2009
Labels: Guitar
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