Originally posted by Psycho Amram
i don't know how much practice is "the best" for ya i guess it's what you feel
see, when i got started i was so excited i played 'till i literally couldn't make my finger move anymore (and bled alot) but after a time i cooled down (especially when my parents tarted screaming at me not to play after 12:00 AM :) )
and now i have luck if i find time for more than hour a day.

oh and about the bands thing (in another post of yours) i've got a band but we are not going for fame (at least for now) and only a handful of our frieds heard our recordings (but a lot more heard about them) we do it for fun

lol. well see i wouldnt do it just for fame either. But i always wondered how to get booked into big hallrooms like the fillmore and stuff. I mean who wouldnt want to play in front of 50,000 people at M.S.G? I never have trusted record company's, and i think if i ever got a good band together we'd make our own label. Just like one of my favorite bands, String Cheese Incident. SCI Fedelity, they made.
now i believe practice is just as important when your younger and everything as much as it is as you get older. I believe anybody ( especially those with bigger fingers and imaginations) can become a professional musician if they stay with it and practice their ass off all the time. You know what i mean? Im starting making riffs now, using mostly the B Major Pentatonic Scale, and the B major scale. Why did I choose B? because the song 'Fire On The Mountain' by the grateful Dead is in the key of B ( usually ), so then i got somethin to work off of that.
I just picked up some American Folk Music book, and i memorized the first few songs in there. I dont know how they go ( i made the arrangement up myself) they had the chords there, but didnt have the rhythm. And i think i'll be doing that stuff ( folk music ) throughout my life, continuously learning music, etc.


** Oh yeah and the big hands part- Thats just what i've seen, people with little hands struggle to play Barr Chords and stretch their fingers over frets lets say...5 frets apart. just my observations**

[Edited by Incidents Happen on 12-26-2001 at 04:20 PM]