07-09-2019, 06:17 AM
Quote:@Shannon I've noticed that practicing guitar drains me mentally REALLY fast and I'm starting to wonder... does all the mental energy needed for practice get used up by E3's programming? Just curious if E3's playing a role in how quickly I'm getting mentally wiped out by practicing the same riff over and over?
Just remember that learning takes time because your brain has to make physical changes. It requires input and rest/processing time, not just input.
Doing too much at once can actually slow you down. When I started trying to learn to ride my electric unicycle (Gotway MSuper V3s+ at the time, MSuper X now), I would spend hours and hours trying to do it and come home sore all over, exhausted and generally beat up (even though I never really fell off).
Later came to find out that not only was I approaching how to learn the wrong way (nobody to teach me, so I had to stumble through figuring out how to learn to ride it alone, too), but I was actually trying too hard. When I started using the methods I found described for how to learn to ride on YouTube, and I started doing it for less time per day (in my case it went from 2-4 hours a day to 30-45 minutes a day), I actually started learning faster because I was matching the input to the processing time available.
Hot Tip: If you're learning to ride an electric unicycle, get a shopping cart to hold on to and push around in front of you until you're comfortable not holding it!
Now, not saying that your times for practicing will be the same as mine were, that's apples and oranges. What I am saying is... go to YouTube and find everything you can on HOW to learn to play guitar. Learning HOW to learn something is the first step, and most people don't know that.
And never, ever give up. You can only fail if you stop trying.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!