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It doesn’t matter if you’re an athlete, a writer, a musician, or a juggler, there comes a time in skill development that you reach what’s called the “OK Plateau.” This is when you get to a point where you’re content at what you can do and then plane out with going further. Some skilled people …
Bass players shouldn’t strictly rely on advice from other bass players. The same can be said for any musician, e.g. sometimes advice by a piano player can be applied to the guitar. Well, I once heard one bit of advice that could probably help out any musician at their instrument. This goes double for anyone …
I got into instructional videos much later on into my musical training. I’m talking about twenty years into it. See, the way I started out was taking private lessons; I then supplemented these private lessons by going through all the lessons in magazines like “Guitar For the Practicing Musician” and “Bass Player.” I had a …
Every musician will always remember the time they got their first instrument. Maybe you had a friend that had given up on music so you exploited his desperation and gave him 50 bucks to help enable his alcoholism for a day or so and in return got his old beat up Fender. Maybe you had …
The vast majority of musicians I’ve ever run across pretty much all share a similar trait: they’re comfortable at the plateau they’ve reached in their playing abilities. By that I mean they’ve reached a certain point in their playing where they’re happy with where they’re at and they now have no desire to push beyond …
