Minor complaints thread (23 Viewers)

[Anthony]

I have an easy fix for that. Never play covers.

Although I think I'm missing out on a lot of fun.

 

[magicbastarder]

is that the one written by the tennis coach who realised he didn't really need to coach? i think i heard about it on a michael lewis podcast episode.

this is the one:

The Coach in Your Head | Against the Rules

Just about anyone today can call themselves a coach. Michael Lewis traces this trend back to its source and finds out the secret to effective coaching.

www.pushkin.fm

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

I have an easy fix for that. Never play covers.

Although I think I'm missing out on a lot of fun.

I love doing covers,but to enjoy it I find it best to be not too precious

 

[JohnnyRaz]

the sheer exasperating frustration of unlearning a guitar intro I've been playing incorrectly for about 30 years

If no one has noticed in 30 years, why bother?

It’s a bit of the ‘if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it etc..’ thing?

 

[egg_]

is that the one written by the tennis coach who realised he didn't really need to coach? i think i heard about it on a michael lewis podcast episode.

Well, depends on what you mean by "coach". Like - I don't think he stopped coaching, but he radically changed how he went about it. Probably the main theme is physical learning by observation rather than using instructions-in-words

 

[ernesto]

. Never play covers.

Although I think I'm missing out on a lot of fun.

Same. although I'm thinking of relearning some tunes I used to know when I started playing 25 years ago.

 

[magicbastarder]

what i remember was his realisation that most

Well, depends on what you mean by "coach". Like - I don't think he stopped coaching, but he radically changed how he went about it. Probably the main theme is physical learning by observation rather than using instructions-in-words

the way i remember it from the podcast was that he realised that most people he was coaching didn't need him to tell them what they were doing wrong (or right); they knew it already. the 'origin story' of the book was one day he was coaching someone and he stopped giving instructions and he realised they were doing what he'd have been telling them anyway.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I have an easy fix for that. Never play covers.

Although I think I'm missing out on a lot of fun.

And a few quid.

 

[Anthony]

And a few quid.

I don't want to look like a liar. I have done plenty of covers in my time. The Middle Ages even attempted one.

 

[therealjohnny]

If no one has noticed in 30 years, why bother?

It’s a bit of the ‘if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it etc..’ thing?

because it's obvious where I went wrong, and the rest of it sounds pretty good, if I do say so myself. No one will ever hear it anyway, but I "know"

 

[therealjohnny]

I have an easy fix for that. Never play covers.

Although I think I'm missing out on a lot of fun.

Learning covers over the years has taught me so much. Usually, I am far from a perfectionist about these things..but in this case, I am soooo close (makes gesture with fingers to indicate small measurement)

I have a friend who is a great guitarist and can mimic so many famous songs , in both his playing and effects pedals, but I have to feign interest because that doesn't appeal to me at all

 

[therealjohnny]

It's this, for anyone interested

I don't care who's interested
I'm learning this opening run all the same

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[egg_]

Learning covers over the years has taught me so much

+1

Learning stuff for this jam session I've been doing for the last few years has taught me so much about songwriting ... also thinking about songs in music theory terms, like having chords in my head as I IV V ii rather than C F G Dm

 

[egg_]

the 'origin story' of the book was one day he was coaching someone and he stopped giving instructions and he realised they were doing what he'd have been telling them anyway.

Yeah - he's very much about not instructing, and more about "observe and let your body do the learning"

 

[Kermit McDermott]

It feels like it's been raining non stop for six months.

 

[ernesto]

It feels like it's been raining non stop for six months.

A client said the same thing to me today.

'Does it ever fuckin shtop?'

 

[Jill Hives]

It feels like it's been raining non stop for six months.

I could take a mud bath in my garden. Head wrecking.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

+1

thinking about songs in music theory terms, like having chords in my head as I IV V ii rather than C F G Dm

I think its called the Nashville numbers system.

 

[ann post]

I have an easy fix for that. Never play covers.

Although I think I'm missing out on a lot of fun.

I only enjoy learning covers to the point where i get an idea of how the writer is thinking, or an idea of their approach. Once I find that I've little to no interest in getting things perfect, or even learning the rest of it.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Learning covers over the years has taught me so much. Usually, I am far from a perfectionist about these things..but in this case, I am soooo close (makes gesture with fingers to indicate small measurement)

I have a friend who is a great guitarist and can mimic so many famous songs , in both his playing and effects pedals, but I have to feign interest because that doesn't appeal to me at all

I think my main focus when learning was to be able to write my own songs... and then I just did versions of other songs rather than covers in the proper sense.

This definitely slowed my learning of technique etc...and in a way I regret it.
but as a 'mature' 'musician' I still get more pleasure out of coming up with my own take on something than having it note perfect.

The one thing I love about folk music/songs in particular (in a traditional sense), is that by it's very nature songs evolve and are adapted over time, every player/singer putting their own slant on it (at least that's what I tell myself when I realise I've misremembered words)