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The city is covered in rain. Who get warm bed? Who is frozen inside?
There’s a post talking about how to master Bebop jazz which remind me of the early scene when I fell in love with guitar.
The initial motivation is simple, coz I like music especially the beautiful tone of this instrument, no matter clear tone or distortion etc., but when I got some obvious progress in guitar studying, I dreamed a little dream about being a real guitar player, I forced myself to practice the songs and licks far beyond my knowledge and skill, I gradually found that these were not as easy as they sound, even if I can play some of them fluently, I couldn’t control the music I play, or in other words, got the soul of these music, not to mention others which are really mission impossible for me to play even in slow speed, then I was confused just like when I saw the post mentioned above.
It said in the post that it may take years for learning jazz scales, years for chords, years for arpeggio, years for jazz music theory, and years for ear-training and sight-singing…That’s why only few persons can play jazz guitar well in China as it require decent music background and sound jazz music environment which is too far away from Chinese.
There’s always something we couldn’t achieve easily or couldn’t achieve at all. Being frustrated and desperate is not a good idea, why not to move on?
So I prefer to understand “Never give up” a casual attitude than a way to success. Just take it easy, even if I can’t become a guitar master, I can enjoy the studying and my rendition at least, actually I do enjoy and will enjoy in future.
But sometimes there’s also something you feel confused with, and at the same time you even can’t find the “at least” in. The worst thing is that you even can’t give up and go away.
The feeling comes around maybe when you’re crowded but lonely in your office, maybe when you repeat routine and actually nothing else to do, maybe when you wanna be more professional but can’t find how to be, maybe when emergency suddenly happen and it’s really a bad news.
Whatever, we have to move on. Even if you’re frozen inside, you’re gonna find a warm bed eventually. |
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