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one of the scariest things with learning something truly unfamiliar to you is not being able to feel like you can defend your own decisions
i have had to make so many decisions on the course of my musical journey and i think i am constantly afraid some of them were Wrong, but i can't really let the world decide everything for me? i have to have my own taste in things, stubborn and based on strange chance as it may be
very grateful to the friendly swedish man in the music store who promised me i won't regret my choice of guitar. i think i needed that
it's troublesome because i know i will make the wrong decisions, sometimes, but i also know that there can be such a thing as too much outside input. i am not always as strong-willed as i may seem. i am so tremendously grateful to all the people who've responded to me tenderly
the reason adults struggle to pick up new skills is not that children are gifted in some special way, it's that adults struggle with adult expectations; to learn something new requires safety in being a child again
@hikari in my limited experience, a good way to make a team unstoppable is to have a willingness to cover for others while they make silly mistakes
(this works best in environments where direct competition with them isn't a factor you have to personally worry about)
@hikari oh i also felt that as a child
@hikari Clearing that first hurdle of anxiety is so important. I'm glad that man was there for you. As a trumpet player, I often try to think in terms of what are the characteristics of this instrument. The instrument isn't necessarily good or bad. Its characteristics might be in-line with one musical tradition or another, but that doesn't mean anything more than that. My cornet sounds like early Jazz and Sousa marches, because they played cornets. My trumpet sounds fit to be a lower chair orchestra horn, because that's what people have been playing for a century. I dont regret either, because they each give me a unique opportunity to have fun
@TommyTorty10 yeah!! i think what i fear is that i'll get something that's not “cool” or not suited to the particular genres i'm interested in, but in truth that's… almost not possible? the guitar is an endlessly flexible instrument. assuming it meets a basic standard of quality it can't really be wrong