Oh that's exactly what I hav thought billions of time. First you really have to concentrate one every single note you're playing. You play it again and again and again. The lesson I have learned from playing music is relative to "the eternal now" as you call it. When I try to play difficult songs or solos, I never do it perfectly unless I use all of my concentration. When I concentrate deeply on my playing, it seems to me that time slows down, and I can play faster and with better precision.
Let's say a guitar solo is too fast for the "little me" to play it (I mean the "me" that plays without thinking, subconsciously as you said it). It's all too quick for me to grab anything. But then I start to focus as deeply as I can. What seemed to me like "too quick" now seems normal, and I can do it. I have more conscience of the "now". It's hard to explain. If my "now" seemed to be 1 second long, when I concentrate, it becomes 0.5 second long, and I have a better awareness of what I have to do in the "next now". you understand
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I'm sure you do! In OUR you say that when you meditate, you experience only the now. Well it's the same when you concentrate on playing guitar or indeed performing anything. Concentration is what makes us divine.
Now about the "subconscious mind", you're also right. As I was saying, first, you have to concentrate on every note you're playing. But as you practice over and over again, you start to play it unconsciously, and perfectly, and you wonder why it took so much time. What seemed impossible now becomes evident. I have learned a lot through music.
For example, I tried to apply my reasoning about the now into my life. You have to concentrate, to know what you should do right now, in THIS moment. And this is exactly what is taught in The Science Of Being Great! It's wonderful that you can learn from anything and apply this to anything in life.
And from that, someone that can concentrate enough can pick up a guitar, although he has never played, and play perfectly well! What do you think about this one? Concentration is fabulous. (Yes, I know, you knew all of that - I'm just writing what I thought so many times in my mind). I just love to sit down sometimes and fantasize about all what could be achieved with the power of our concentration!!!! It seems like there are no barriers!
About that guitarist, there are really TONS of videos like this one on the internet. And yet It seems like very few of these great guitarists emerge and get recognition. I have realised that you can play just 4 notes and make people cry - and on the other hand, you can play like Yngwie Malmsteem and no one cares. I think the purpose of music is beauty rather than speed and technicality. I have started guitar in 2003 and started to learn a whole lot of songs. I was learning really quickly and spending days and days on my guitar. I reached a certain level, and since 2006, I stopped to evolve
. Now anyone that I think plays better than me is always considered as "incredible" and "totally awesome". So I think I made half the way to playing "incredibly", and I sat down, thinking "c'mon!! you don't have to play so fast!!"
I know this may be only a mere excuse to stop evolving. But I also know that if you're gonna make music, there has to be a message, an atmosphere, and an energy inside it.
Brian May is great! I have listened to only one song by now but his music is really deep and well-made. So he's an astrophysicist too?! That's exactly what I want to do: to be a great musician and in the same time have a doctorate in Electronics. I don't want to feel like an ignorant musician, I want to make studies too. My nicname on MSN is Seeker of Beauty // Seeker of Truth (beauty=music, Truth=studies)
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