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Incidents Happen
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Incidents Happen
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12/29/2001 7:50 pm
Originally posted by chris mood
remember...there is a difference between playing and practicing. A lot of guys will pick up the guitar and noodle for a couple hrs, thats not practicing. I started playing when I was 11, but I didn't actually learn what practicing was until my early 20's.
Learn theory, learn to read (I'm not talking tab here), and get yourself a good teacher, if you got the work ethic and the personality you can go far.


man, chris, your almost making me piss my pants im so happy to hear that. I have a good teacher, work ethic and personality, and im learning theory ( and love it), only thing i dont have is how to learn to read music yet...my instructor told me i dont have to really learn to read music for a few years, but if i did it'd be really good.

as for 'noodling or practicing' goes, i do scales, chords, and try to work riffs out of the scales. thats considered practicing right? because i mean, i've been really workin the B major Pentatonic, and i memorized every note in it and can play it in my sleep backwards, forwards, the roots, everything in it, im taking it one scale at a time. and i do alot of riff-work, but its all INSIDE the scales, so therefore its like scale-work. thats not 'noodling' is it?

[Edited by Incidents Happen on 12-29-2001 at 02:53 PM]