I don't know who needs to hear this, but music is hard.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but music is hard. If you don't get something right away, it's because music is hard, not because you suck. You think that because the entire world looks at people who make art and says, "Anybody could do that." But that's not actually remotely true. It's both athletic and mentally challenging, and then there's the bravery required, and the ability to make a decision, and the performing under pressure part. (1/)
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but music is hard. If you don't get something right away, it's because music is hard, not because you suck. You think that because the entire world looks at people who make art and says, "Anybody could do that." But that's not actually remotely true. It's both athletic and mentally challenging, and then there's the bravery required, and the ability to make a decision, and the performing under pressure part. (1/)
And then there's the whole being inventive enough to be interesting, and the having a point of view. And then there's the discipline to keep it up because if you don't use your skills you lose them, and on and on. And then there's just simply the comprehension of music and poetry, which are themselves lifelong endeavors.
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And then there's the whole being inventive enough to be interesting, and the having a point of view. And then there's the discipline to keep it up because if you don't use your skills you lose them, and on and on. And then there's just simply the comprehension of music and poetry, which are themselves lifelong endeavors.
You aren't going to master all of these things at once, or at the end of a course, or even upon a graduation. You are going to chase them, and come up short, forever.
Because it's hard. You don't suck. It's just hard.
If it were easy, it wouldn't be worth doing. Do the hard things.
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