Comment on Discussion Thread 🍨 Monday 8 December 2025

LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Slow down if you’re making mistakes

  Use a metronome

  Record yourself so you know how you sound

  Music theory is not the enemy

  But above all of that, have fun!!!

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks! Love the last point especially :)

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• phant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For gigs. Practice how you play. Sure I can practise the act of making the right notes by sitting in front of my computer. But there’s more involved in a gig and I learnt it’s worth practising it all (as much as feasible). Stand up, guitar into pedals into amp, mic on mic stand (plugged into some speakers if possible). On stage it’s easy to forget shit like this-pedal on/off now or shit I’m s’posed to be at the mic right now. And then just general stage presence. Open mics also great practise grounds.

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah I should practise standing up! Thanks for the tips :)

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• Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Listening to a recording of myself. Quietened my loud breathing down after that! ( it was a wind instrument but I sounded like I was gasping!)

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ooh yes that’s a great one! Thanks!

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are there any exercises to practice to improve individual skills in isolation?

  Like a particular ‘song’ made to get you used to a tricky chord and ingrain it in muscle memory?

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks melba! I don’t believe lazy is entirely a thing. You can either be disinterested, or want to do it, but have various barriers in the way.

    I absolutely struggle with inconsistency at the moment and am trying to rectify that. My problem is that I don’t push myself because I tell myself that it’s going to be too hard when I do need a nudge.

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was called ‘talented’ but never actually really began.

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      To be honest I hated the kiddie songs for beginners and was being placed under unreasonable expectations by adults who either wanted to live their failed dreams through me or have a show pony that did tricks. The pressure killed my desire and the boring fundamentals work did the rest. Also I had way too much else on my plate like survival. The same things are true now with the ukulele. No idea where it is.

      But I was and am very tired and distractable so it’s just easier and less revealing to call it lazy.

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      • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Thanks melba! I love the video game dailies method!

        Tell me about the kiddie songs for beginners! Especially on piano. It’s always worth playing music you like.

        Good on you for having a flossing habit.

        I think I still want to play music and just do things in general, it’s just that lately I’ve been really sleep deprived and everything feels too hard.

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