[musictlk] Question for you all

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
Honestly I've also said this once, many others have said it before me:
You can't just "Learn" an instrument. It probably takes 1000 hours of 
practice to be passible, it takes 5 thousand hours to be good and it takes 
10000 hours of practice to be a master.
Most of those hours have to be under a teacher who will check up on you 
every week or so, pointing you at new pieces and fixing your technique. The 
others are practice practice practice!
There was a button in my local music store that said: Excuse me, I've got to 
practice.
It seems as that is the end of the majority of my conversations. I'm sorry, 
I've got to practice, I'll see you later, I've got to practice. I've got a 
practice room waiting for me...
What are you doing this summer? Practicing!!!
1000 hours of practice is one hour a day for about 3 years. Every single day 
one hour. I round it off to 3 years because of course there will be more or 
less days where you can't practice and or whereyou will go over that one 
hour, but 3 years is about passible level. Before that what you are doing is 
chicken squawks and honking toots on your instrument. I've been singing 
about one hour a day for 2 years and I know I sound no where as near as good 
as the professionals I hear. I suspect it won't be till about 8 or so more 
years before I really begin to notice that I'm getting good. When I'm 30 in 
10 years is when I'll be good and when I turn 45 15 years later I should be 
considered a master. Of course once I reach the 30 mark I should be starting 
my professional work, so my practice will probably move from 1-2 hours a day 
to 2-4 hours a day on top of a performance.

I'm saying this because one can't just "learn to play an instrument", one 
has to practice to learn. Most of playing an instrument is self discovery 
and self experimentation. I believe the performing arts division condones 
somewhat these lessons, but many of the serious players on this list really 
feel insulted when someone thinks they can learn an instrument over the 
phone or over Skype.
I'd be glad to teach you, but not for free and my lessons would come with a 
disclaimer that I'm not responsible for any minor errors in your playing. If 
you are flexing your legs super hard when you sing, I'm not going to know 
that unless I just happen to spot it with my ears and guess what you're 
doing. Also, if you're going 123, 123, 12, for the C major scale at first, 
it may be a few practice sessions before I catch what you're doing.


We had a huge argument on this at the musicians meeting at the NFB 
convention, if teachers want to teach feel free. If students want to learn, 
go ahead, but there will be that break between the passible and good 
players.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Linda Mentink
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 8:49 PM
To: Music Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [musictlk] Question for you all

Hi Koby,

I get the impression that you're looking for free lessons, and
expecting the listers here to work with you. This is not very
practical, nor will it be advantageous to you or your potential
teacher. You want to learn many instruments this way, and this will
be impossible. Figure out which instrument you want to learn. Then
look for a teacher in your area who will be willing to work with you.
You may contact the music stors in your area and ask some questions.
Then you'll need to purchase or rent an instrument. You'll just have
to work one-on-one with a teacher, as many here have done, and pay
for the lessons.

Why is it that many blind people expect something for nothing?

You may also check out Bill Brown's audio courses at NLS.

Blessings,

Linda

At 11:44 AM 7/4/2012, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>Would any of you be welling to teach me how to play the flute?
>Right back soon,
>Koby
>Sent from my iPhone
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