Re: How much time have you wasted?


jurupari@xxxxxxx wrote:
> There was a thread going on on another ng about this, and I thought it
> might be an interesting idea to toss around here.
>
> I mean assuming guitar playing isn't actually wasting time. :o)
>
> What impeded me was getting to the limit of my ear and being stuck
> there and trying to bail out by playing scalar stuff, and not being
> able to integrate the things I could transcribe with everything else I
> knew.
>
> It didn't take much to turn that around, but it wouldn't have fixed
> itself. Some info in lessons, input from colleagues/mentors and a
> couple of good ideas out of books, and it slowly started coming
> together.
>
> So what was a waste of time for you, what wasn't, what would you do
> differently, what do you need to do differently. etc etc. question
> mark.
>
> I think everybody must get the sense that they wasted time and didn't
> progress like they should have, but it's just a guess involving a great
> deal of projection. Some of you probably hit the ground running too.
>
> Clif Kuplen

Not that theory is a waste of time, but all too often the books I buy
present a bunch of theory and not much practice. Not a complete waste,
but they often are too dry by not providing immediately playable
exercises that use the theory. I'd much rather have a book that is
composed of 20 percent or less theory and 80 percent of playable
examples of using that theory, than the other way around. I think a
lot of authors just do a brain dump onto the paper, but dont think of a
strategy that gets the student using it. My old clarinet and sax
books were nothing like the typical guitar instructional books you see.
Those woodwind books were loaded with exercises, transcriptions,
progressions that were immediately playable, and the necessqary theory
was covered in a few pages along the way. "Theory and Practice" is the
idea, but so many authors neglect the practice part, and I think this
wastes the students time, as they are left just hanging with a lot of
rote facts to fend for themselves. It takes a lot more work for an
author to develop practice material than to simply output the classroom
theory and leave it at that.

Another waste was waiting 10 years to play again after an injury, I
should have done it in five, but thats more a dim regret than a waste
now.

.

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