Comments on: How I practice http://sixstringlounge.com/how-i-practice/ a positive guitar community, hosted by Mark Lee Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:57:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: JayRobIBZ http://sixstringlounge.com/how-i-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-1759 JayRobIBZ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:01:37 +0000 http://sixstringlounge.com/?p=351#comment-1759 While I am by no means a professional guitarist, I have been playing in churches and Christian bands for the last 8 years. I too share a general lack of dedication towards practice. I hope this blog will help inspire me to get more serious about it. I find my truest inspiration and most honed ability when I am in the presence of God, and I love the dependency that brings me. But on the other hand God has given me a gift to be able to use these hands to make music and I shouldn't treat it like a casual hobby. I was lucky (blessed) enough to have a guitar teacher who taught me how to play the GUITAR and make music rather than the norm. The norm is to teach kids the chords to a few songs, then sight read and maybe learn a couple of scales. Thus far I have gotten by on my ear and ability to improvise but if I dedicated myself to improving my skills, the music I could make to glorify the Lord would only be that much better. I will work on a training schedule; something close to what I used to do years ago when I had fantastic chops; and post a comment on Marks next blog about his routine. Jay Frisby - Palmer Alaska <a href="http://www.myspace.com/jayfrisby" rel="nofollow">www.myspace.com/jayfrisby</a> While I am by no means a professional guitarist, I have been playing in churches and Christian bands for the last 8 years. I too share a general lack of dedication towards practice. I hope this blog will help inspire me to get more serious about it. I find my truest inspiration and most honed ability when I am in the presence of God, and I love the dependency that brings me. But on the other hand God has given me a gift to be able to use these hands to make music and I shouldn't treat it like a casual hobby.

I was lucky (blessed) enough to have a guitar teacher who taught me how to play the GUITAR and make music rather than the norm. The norm is to teach kids the chords to a few songs, then sight read and maybe learn a couple of scales. Thus far I have gotten by on my ear and ability to improvise but if I dedicated myself to improving my skills, the music I could make to glorify the Lord would only be that much better.

I will work on a training schedule; something close to what I used to do years ago when I had fantastic chops; and post a comment on Marks next blog about his routine.

Jay Frisby - Palmer Alaska http://www.myspace.com/jayfrisby

]]> By: Keith Jennings http://sixstringlounge.com/how-i-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-1748 Keith Jennings Tue, 26 May 2009 02:31:35 +0000 http://sixstringlounge.com/?p=351#comment-1748 I enjoyed this post, Mark. It's great to hear what happens "behind the scenes" from a professional. I'm re-listening to Bob Spitz's Beatles biography during commutes and it's jumped out how Lennon and McCartney wrote songs every day no matter what. Which called to mind this article by Geoffrey Colvin: <a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/8391794/index.htm" target="_blank">http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_ar...</a> on the 10-year rule of practice. Look forward to future posts about this. Plus more on the book, Mastery. I enjoyed this post, Mark. It's great to hear what happens "behind the scenes" from a professional. I'm re-listening to Bob Spitz's Beatles biography during commutes and it's jumped out how Lennon and McCartney wrote songs every day no matter what. Which called to mind this article by Geoffrey Colvin: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_ar... on the 10-year rule of practice. Look forward to future posts about this. Plus more on the book, Mastery.

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