tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post5152817741946569788..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: The Real RecompenseBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-240381029054675762018-03-22T08:06:38.020-05:002018-03-22T08:06:38.020-05:00I don't think any instrument is easy, if you w...I don't think any instrument is easy, if you want to play well. But keep at it! Progress comes in fits and sometimes there are plateaus. If you feel stuck, sometimes a teacher, if they are good, can help.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-82059556061028894722018-03-21T21:58:10.225-05:002018-03-21T21:58:10.225-05:00Great to see the pic of you as a young guitarist! ...Great to see the pic of you as a young guitarist! As for touch, I definitely don't have it, and as time goes on I am starting believe learning violin isn't as easy as I thought it would be. I will never give up but I also wonder if I will ever be any good? I'm not trying to be professional, but it would be nice to eventually be good enough to at least play with (and for) just family and friends....Will Wilkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01997868915978439364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-39973242372092134532018-03-17T19:08:51.651-05:002018-03-17T19:08:51.651-05:00On the other hand, your earning potential is proba...On the other hand, your earning potential is probably higher as a bassist...Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-17556786460613642492018-03-17T16:02:42.545-05:002018-03-17T16:02:42.545-05:00When I started playing classical guitar, I instinc...When I started playing classical guitar, I instinctively adopted a Segovia-like right-hand technique. A month or so later I had my first lesson, and it was the first thing my teacher told me to fix. It took me maybe three months to get my right hand to stay parallel with my arm. So, yeah, I wish I'd seen this blog post before I started...<br /><br />When I was around 12, a friend and I were starting up a band and needed a bass guitarist. We naturally thought of this other friend, a classical guitarist. Surely it would be an easy switch, we thought -- both instruments use 'fingerpicking', right? (Well that, and also because he was weird and inscrutable, which is, we believed, the right personality type for a bassist.) A year later he'd given up the classical guitar and became a pretty good bassist. (Though considering how my musical tastes have changed, I now somewhat regret my corrupting influence.)Stevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14149675706182647770noreply@blogger.com