Oh, the ole "
I'm glad you have time to play games" slight
Time is what you make of it. If it's something you enjoy you find time for it - whether golfing, exercise, school, or work, or play.
I certainly hope it wasn't taken as a slight by anybody here. I'm not judgmental at all on video game playing. I think for me, i'm not just not that skilled at the video game front....so I don't find that it keeps my attention for a super long period of time. Of course, on the flip side, I'm probably not that great at the bass guitar front either, but I do find myself making more and more time for that. Games are just so complex and involved. And then I hear that people are playing them for 2, and 3 and 7, and 9 years and I'm like......yeah....I'm not even gonna start because I'm gonna peter out way to fast with the complexities and such.
@antspants, sounds good on the music front. For me, I have tried to get into guitar, I had an acoustic for many years, and then bought and electric and just found that 1 couldn't get my fingers cleanly on multiple strings at a time, and the thin strings would literally make my finger tips go numb, and these things precluded me from putting in the time that was required.
About 3 years ago, my son (Probably 13-14 at the time) picked up my electric guitar and fooled around with it and was like "how do you make your fingers go to the right places, this thing is impossible". I said, son...I've watched you play your video games and your ability to operate your controllers and such at the speed of light with precision leaves me no doubt that if you put in the same amount of time learning to play the guitar as you did video games you would be able to figure it out. It wasn't more than 2 weeks later, and I heard some Crazy Train from Ozzy and The Trooper from Iron Maiden coming from his room. He just sorta figured it out, watched a lot of YouTube videos and took off. He puts in substantial time (3-5 hours most days) and is able to play tons of stuff. He's mostly a metal kid, so it's Metallica, Pantera, Trivium, Megadeth, Slayer, etc.. But he can play.
After seeing his success in his first few months i thought about what it was I didn't like about guitar, and decided that the bass guitar might be a fit for me, as it's mostly single notes at a time, strings are farther apart, there are only 4 strings and the strings are much bigger. Turns out, the parts of the song that I tend to hear are the bass lines anyways, and i've come quite a long way in the past 2 years or so I have been playing. I'll never be great at it, but I probably put in 8-10 hours a week practicing and playing. My fingers get sore and have built up calluses (like they should), but they don't go numb like they did with guitar.
Music has really been a great outlet for my kid and I to spend time together. We've built a few guitar kits, I've learned how to set them all up, and I've amassed a solid collection of guitar luthier tools and my son has started what I hope to be a lifelong passion and hobby. He has a really nice collection of guitars....some 6 strings, some 7's, some Jacksons, some Deans, some Epiphones, some Fenders, some hardtails, some floyds, etc. We've fixed some up, we've completely upgraded others, and we have learned a lot.
Ok well it looks Like your on Slow-motion
