I went over to someone’s house the other day and two young people were playing around on the guitar and bass guitar.
Well, they really didn’t seem to be playing. They were just kind of watching people play music online – just an instrumental kind of rocky non-gospel and non-church guitar technique.
As someone that has learned and mastered multiple instruments, here’s what I saw:
Two people wasting their time.
Why?
Because it wasn’t teaching them anything. They weren’t trying to copy his technique or playing.
And even if they did try to learn it – it seemed like kind of a useless thing to learn anyways.
What he was playing could probably never be used in a church or gospel setting.
It was just…noise!
In fact, call me old – but it was giving me a headache. LOL!
Now I’ve always said – if you really want to PLAY, you need to stop playing around.
Watching people play really fancy techniques, fills and runs and saying “wow – that’s so cool” will never help you to play like that.
You could watch that video a hundred times but if it is not teaching you anything then you are simply Wasting Your Time.
So I sat down and had them turn off the useless Youtube guitar video and then showed them a few things that they could play that were actually useful.
Here is how you learn to play an instrument:
1. Take Lessons and practice
2. Listen to others play and try to copy what they are playing
Anything else is a waste of time.
If you are an amateur, don’t try to learn the fanciest thing you can learn.
Start simple and build upon that.
How do you build a house? By making sure the foundation is good first.
Then you can build upon that foundation.
Is building a foundation fun? No, it’s kind of boring and dirty.
But you can’t have a solid house without it.
It’s the same with music. You will never be a strong musician without a solid musical foundation.
At Apostolic Praise, we teach you how to understand and speak the language of music.
Our goal is not just to teach you songs (although we will teach you many songs) but to learn how to understand music.
We mainly teach you to play
1. By Chord Sheet
2. By Theory
3. By Ear
Once you know a few chords, you can play a chord sheet.
Once you know some theory you can make that chord sheet / song sound BETTER and add better chords, fills and runs in the right spots.
And once you learn how to play by ear, you can do anything.
Take your playing to the next level or start from scratch here!
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God bless you and your playing!
Bro Richard Smith
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