Hey Friend,
Wow, lots of responses! I really appreciate you taking a minute to answer Tuesday’s little poll.
Based on the results, I was a little surprised the numbers weren’t skewed more.
42% of you tend to play freeform, while 42% are focused in your playing. 16% of you do both.
If you add me into the mix, freeform wins out, but based on my teaching experience, I expected the numbers for freeform to be higher. Perhaps that’s just my bias coming through...
This is good, though.
We can each learn a lot from the “alter-approach.” It would be interesting to get us all in a room to see if each group naturally gravitated towards each other.
And I suspect (again, based on my own perception) each of us would like to be either more disciplined, or less structured.
Kinda like when you’re growing up, wishing you could trade a physical attribute with a friend.
I had a buddy (my bass player) that had really tight, curly hair. Mine is thick and poker straight without much body to it.
He wished for straighter hair, while I would’ve liked some body in mine.
You CAN do stuff, but the genes are what the genes are.
Fortunately, our level of discipline can be adjusted without any crazy gene modification!
Us free-formers can adopt a more structured practice routine, and our more disciplined counterparts can loosen up a bit and let the “freebird” fly.
Sometimes discipline get a bad name, I think.
It doesn’t have to mean a rigid schedule or structure, or punishment, and that’s probably why those of us that ‘prefer’ freeform shy away from the focused approach.
Perhaps there’s a happy medium that satisfies both groups?
Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions to help each other out?
Peace~
Dave
P.S. I’m gonna be offline for the weekend starring tomorrow. My siblings and I are surprising my mom for her birthday - all four of her kids in town at the same time.
Getting on a flight tomorrow morning and leaving 70 degree Florida for 30 degree Ohio… Brrr…
Hopefully my brother-in-law still has a guitar floating around I can play…
Y’all have a great weekend!
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