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dintymoore
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Be careful - sometimes when you take a technical approach and do something like playing scales a lot your ear can actually turn itself off in self defense. There's some well known players I believe have gone down this route.
I saw a guy go from never playing to world class in demand player in 3 years, one of my buddies growing up.
Yes, he took lessons and spent some time on scales - but actually very little.
He spent almost all his time copying his heroes and learning songs.
I had a trombone teacher who said by the time he was 19 he knew about 700 songs by heart.
It's my experience that when you take songs out of the equation that things start to go weird.
You could never practice a scale in your life (not that I'm recommending that) and just learn song after song after song and everything, I believe would naturally work out just fine.
The key is - keep it musical.
I saw a guy go from never playing to world class in demand player in 3 years, one of my buddies growing up.
Yes, he took lessons and spent some time on scales - but actually very little.
He spent almost all his time copying his heroes and learning songs.
I had a trombone teacher who said by the time he was 19 he knew about 700 songs by heart.
It's my experience that when you take songs out of the equation that things start to go weird.
You could never practice a scale in your life (not that I'm recommending that) and just learn song after song after song and everything, I believe would naturally work out just fine.
The key is - keep it musical.