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Hello Mark ( @mkjohnsons ), (and @jumpinjeff , @AttyTJ , @Guy_H , @That_Guy @Niels , @Moonhare , @DavidScoggins @SoCal_Ian , @Fletch )
You said: “As for me, one of my best/worst traits is that I’m an overthinker.” I sure do relate to that statement. I don’t think that trait does our guitar journey much good. Music is from the heart and received by the ear. In both directions, the signal has to go past our brain, and that’s the rub. If we could learn to make our brain leave the signal alone, then we would enjoy music more as it passes back and for between our ears and our heart in one direction, and between our heart and our fingers in the other direction. Just sayin’. 😎
Also “And it sure seems like there has to be some sort of goal line out there somewhere.” Why? I now think that is false. What is music, what is the goal of music? Isn’t it to have and to express joy? In other words, there is no goal other than to have fun. Have fun playing your guitar and giving others joy. Have fun listening to the music of others and receive joy.
I know there’s no magic “line” out there, that once you cross it, you’re now “good at guitar”, and likely also that even once you reach that “where you want to go” place, there will always be the “next”. Yet even after saying the above, I have to disagree here. There IS a magic line, but it’s not skill or understanding, but attitude and spirit. I have known people who could make magic with the guitar from the first time they picked it up. And any smallest thing they learn is immediately incorporated into their playing and expressing joy for the benefit of their listeners.
So…. doesn’t there HAVE to be some kind of big goal of some kind out there that we are ALL, actually, striving for?- (the reason we all joined TAC?). Granted, it is different for each of us. But if there is no “goal”, aren’t we just practicing just to enjoy the practicing?- (which is fine by me, by the way). Exactly.
MG 😀