Dude... I have no idea how I stumbled upon your channel but damn I needed this video rn. Been experiencing the things you talk about for so long and it's slowly killing the passion I had. It's so easy nowdays to want to BE a great musician while really it's better for yourself, and for your music, if you just DO great music instead. Seems obvious maybe but it is very difficult to remember when you are constantly surrounded by people showing off their chops and skills in your face every day. Either way great video, enjoyed it a lot :)
I’m glad you can relate! I found my passion diminishing with this trend as well, and I still fall into it sometimes. You fall into this never ending grind. It’s almost like you have to keep reminding yourself to come back to the present.
What has really been annoying me is that I'll work on something so hard and then when I take it out to a rehearsal or go play it live the reaction is like, "we get it- you can do that well but its not really what we want", or from the perspective of non-musicians its like I was born "talented" and im just having fun now. It took me MANY grueling hours of focus on this one little thing to get it! No one wants to root for someone who is already at the top- they either want to mooch off of them or bring them down. Then from my perspective, I don't even want to be one "talented" guy demonstrating how great I am to a bunch of passive listeners or followers- I want to collaborate! I want to create things together with other creative people.
Best thing about music is it’s all subjective and often the more simple stuff sounds better than the technical difficult stuff. Eg Frusciante’s super simple solo in Wet Sand sounds infinitely better to me than anything from eg polyphia, despite their skill levels being insane and demotivating me more
its so easy to demotivate yourself with the internet, just not with music content, anything skill related really, material stuff too if you care. then you got the news... shit. social media really is just a net negative for me. I deleted and tried to block everything
Dude... I have no idea how I stumbled upon your channel but damn I needed this video rn. Been experiencing the things you talk about for so long and it's slowly killing the passion I had. It's so easy nowdays to want to BE a great musician while really it's better for yourself, and for your music, if you just DO great music instead. Seems obvious maybe but it is very difficult to remember when you are constantly surrounded by people showing off their chops and skills in your face every day. Either way great video, enjoyed it a lot :)
I’m glad you can relate! I found my passion diminishing with this trend as well, and I still fall into it sometimes. You fall into this never ending grind. It’s almost like you have to keep reminding yourself to come back to the present.
What has really been annoying me is that I'll work on something so hard and then when I take it out to a rehearsal or go play it live the reaction is like, "we get it- you can do that well but its not really what we want", or from the perspective of non-musicians its like I was born "talented" and im just having fun now. It took me MANY grueling hours of focus on this one little thing to get it!
No one wants to root for someone who is already at the top- they either want to mooch off of them or bring them down. Then from my perspective, I don't even want to be one "talented" guy demonstrating how great I am to a bunch of passive listeners or followers- I want to collaborate! I want to create things together with other creative people.
Someone once told Vladimir Horowitz, "I would give my life to play like you."
Horowitz replied, "That's what I did."
Classic
dude - i relate to everything in this video, thanks so much for giving your thoughts on it, it helped to change my mindset!
Glad I’m not the only one 😅
Fantastic video man! loved it
Thank you! 🙏
Best thing about music is it’s all subjective and often the more simple stuff sounds better than the technical difficult stuff. Eg Frusciante’s super simple solo in Wet Sand sounds infinitely better to me than anything from eg polyphia, despite their skill levels being insane and demotivating me more
Dude you nailed it. The simple stuff is so good , that solo is a great example. So much feeling.
@I could say a lot because it’s such a fun topic to go deep into but you covered a lot in this lad, appreciate your vids
its so easy to demotivate yourself with the internet, just not with music content, anything skill related really, material stuff too if you care. then you got the news... shit. social media really is just a net negative for me. I deleted and tried to block everything
Too true, it applies to most things
but my narcissistic delusions of grandeur! ;(
I know, the truth hurt me too 🤣
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