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Velvet Goldmine wrote:If you do it my way, you will succeed, it will work for evybody. The only reaseon Django becam a musical genius was that he did this several houers a day, 7 days a week, if YOU do this you WILL be as good as Django. That is no farytail. It´s the bitter truth, well pretty sweet actally
Teddy Dupont wrote:devinci wrote:Practice seven hours a day and you will get good, but it takes God given facility to become a musical genius.
Absolutely right!
After his accident, Django was bedridden for nearly 18 months and practiced religiously during that period to develop his two finger approach. However, in the late 40's when he became somewhat disenchanted with the public response to his playing, he would often not touch the guitar for months to the extent that the strings would become corroded. However, as soon as he pulled it down from the wall of his caravan, he could immediately play like an angel. Genius is something is something you are born with. You need to assiduously develop it but you cannot practice to became a genius.
I hope that makes sense. I've had a "couple" of glasses of wine this evening.
nwilkins wrote:Velvet Goldmine wrote:Never said you could be as good as Django, not in a million years.
Yes you did! Look at what you wrote - your post above says (and I quote): "if YOU do this you WILL be as good as Django. That is no farytail. "
For the record I do agree that the method you suggest will improve your creativity and ear, but there are still other important factors (such as innate genius) which cannot be learned through practice if one is to approach Django's greatness.
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Teddy Dupont wrote:[Genius is something is something you are born with. You need to assiduously develop it but you cannot practice to became a genius.
Velvet Goldmine wrote:Take the best Django record you got, sit there and play along wiht it.
BUT, thsi is the most impornent thing, FORGET the chords, FORGET the head, FORGET EVRYTHING you know about the song. Now when you have freed your mind. Picture the whole guitar as a libiary of tunes, try to use the tones to create rythm and harmony. This will practise both your ear and fingers. Then always try to play as fast as Django, even though it sounds bad, do an overkill play, the first day it might sound bad, but then from out of nowhere you will grasp it. Rember, Django did not have tabluatures nor chordcharts, he could not read notes. This is how Django bacame the meanset swinger in the world, don´t you want to be the second meanest swinger in the world?
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