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My Life as a Young Guitar Player
Every guitar player dreams of standing, posing ecstatically after their epic solo. They dream of standing in front of giant crowds bragging their talent. However for many getting a show even when it's just for the bar tender may be enough. I'm a part of this "many." Keeping up with playing guitar is a difficult process, especially for teenagers and older children. It starts in the morning. Nobody can actually get up when they say do. After barely getting all of your morning routines done, you have to practice just a little to have that practice flowing through your mind throughout the day. Finally you go to your day job or school which always seems to be too much. You get home and finish your daily chores. After them you fix yourself dinner and eat it and you realize how late it is. You know that you should practice for two hours if you are going to be any good fast but realize it's not worth losing the sleep. You only practice for 30 minutes. You play the same section of a solo really slowly and do it again and again trying your very best not to get your mind to wander. You finish with your thirty minutes and really want to bring it all the way up to speed but it would take another 15 minutes. You take it and remember the other instruments you play. You put a good 30 minutes into all of those instruments and rush to sleep. Sound stressful? Well it's more stressful with the thought that you never got a full 2 hours and know that you aren't getting good enough fast enough. The next morning you wake up more tired. Your day repeats. You live on doing this knowing one day you will start getting shows, anything sounds good. Playing for banks, prisons, regular clubs. It really is hard to be a teenage guitar player. That's a view into my daily life.