Dear loopers! Everything absolutely everything in life has its ascending curves of enthusiasm and its decreasing curves of disappointment, a new partner, a trip, a profession, a hobby, a new vital company etc. etc.
Music of course is captive to this "unwritten law" of enthusiasm / disappointment, but in my case music is one of the few ludic activities of the human being that has not disappointed me yet ...
Until I found wikiloops by chance, I played on commercial versions or songs that I liked with some instrument, and then I practiced "alone" with how tedious this task is sometimes if you want to progress
I found Wikiloops and was able to expand everything that music gives me:
- practice directly on other musicians' jams
- explore new styles and ideas
- contribute my musical ideas to the looper community
- practicing music by ear for pure pleasure, studying theory is very useful and makes you a better musician, but for me it is not necessary to play in jams and very tedious
- play various instruments for the pleasure of playing them, I do not master any !! but I have the pleasure of playing in several, now I found the drums lately ...
- buy and sell instruments, and what is another of my fetish hobbies ... modify them !!! I turn basses into fretless, I modify bridges and pickups or simple electronics, I adjust instruments to my style etc etc
- explore mixing and recording techniques in the underworld of music computing (DAWs, VSTs, etc)
And all this makes me consume my life in an activity that I like in which I am still on the upward curve!
I also play live with friends for pleasure without professional encouragement, only when friends call me and we feel like having beers !!!
There is another advantage that is not musical ... learning new instruments or doing new activities ... delays brain aging!
Inspiration comes by itself ...
Greetings!!
PS I have also met friends with my interests all over the world !! some like Wade, Melinos, Tyros4 and Andri even in person
Edited by
GlezBass on Giugno 25 2021 17:53
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