I Practiced Guitar up 12 hours A Day For A Month - Was It Worth it?

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Summary

TLDREn el seu últim vídeo de l'any, Dennis CH comparteix les seves experiències sobre la pràctica musical, destacant la importància de la pràctica eficient i la dedicació necessària per millorar com a músic. A pesar de sentir-se malament, reflexiona sobre el seu entrenament intens i les lliçons apreses d'altres músics respectats. Discuteix la diferència entre talent i esforç, i com la majoria de les persones no aconsegueixen els seus objectius per falta de compromís. Finalment, anima als espectadors a ser realistes amb les seves expectatives i a gaudir del procés d'aprenentatge.

Takeaways

  • 🎸 La pràctica eficient és clau per al progrés musical.
  • ⏳ Es pot convertir en un bon músic en 3-5 anys amb la pràctica adequada.
  • 💪 L'esforç és més important que el talent en la música.
  • 🎧 Escoltar música i buscar instrucció són essencials per millorar.
  • 📅 La pràctica diària és crucial per veure progressos significatius.
  • 🤔 Revisar la qualitat de la pràctica si no es veu progressos.
  • 🎯 Establir objectius realistes ajuda a mantenir la motivació.
  • 😊 Gaudir del procés d'aprenentatge és fonamental.
  • 🧠 La pràctica pot ser terapèutica, però cal evitar l'obsessió.
  • 👨‍🏫 Buscar recursos i mentors és important per aprendre nous estils.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Dennis CH comparteix la seva experiència de practicar molt mentre se sent malament. Destaca la importància de l'eficiència en la pràctica a mesura que creixem i acumulem responsabilitats. A través dels anys, ha après a maximitzar el seu temps d'estudi, gràcies a les seves interaccions amb músics respectats i al seu ensenyament.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Comenta que s'ha trobat amb crítiques sobre el talent i el temps necessari per millorar com a músic. Destaca que la seva experiència personal i observacions li permeten afirmar que és possible aconseguir un bon nivell en pocs anys amb la pràctica adequada i dedicada.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Aclareix que no es refereix a músics d'elit com Jarrett o Grober, sinó a músics normals que poden assolir un alt nivell amb un esforç estructurat i al llarg de cinc anys.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Relata la seva dedicació recent a practicar flamenc i la seva comprensió de la importància de treballar en la música real, concentrant-se en tècniques i so adequats per a un desenvolupament efectiu.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Detalla l'estil de pràctica que ha utilitzat recentment, incloent escoltar música de flamenc i estudiar tècniques a través de tutorials, i la seva relació entre l'estudi del flamenc i el seu desig de millora.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Aborda les crítiques sobre les expectatives de la pràctica, destacant que per millorar realment, cal un compromís seriós i sentir una autèntica passió per la música, superant les dificultats i la fatiga mental.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Discuteix la importància de la humilitat en l'aprenentatge i com alguns alumnes no han estat capaços de seguir les seves recomanacions, reflectint sobre el compromís necessari per millorar.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Menciona casos d'amics seus que, malgrat tenir poc temps, han aconseguit millorar significativament a través de l'aplicació correcta dels mètodes d'estudi.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:56

    Finalment, Dennis CH reflexiona sobre el talent i la seva rellevància en la pràctica musical, afirmant que la dedicació i la correcta metodologia són factors clau per aconseguir el progrés desitjat.

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Video Q&A

  • Quina és la clau per a una pràctica musical eficient?

    La clau és la humilitat i la voluntat d'acceptar que cal treballar de manera eficient i constant.

  • Quants anys es necessita per convertir-se en un bon músic?

    Es pot arribar a ser un músic decent en tres anys i molt bo en cinc anys amb la pràctica adequada.

  • Quin és el paper del talent en la música?

    El talent existeix, però l'esforç i la dedicació són més importants per aconseguir millores significatives.

  • Com es pot millorar la tècnica musical?

    És essencial practicar de manera conscient, escoltar música i buscar instrucció adequada.

  • Quina és la importància de la pràctica diària?

    La pràctica diària és crucial per veure progressos significatius en la música.

  • Què fer si no es veu progressos després de molts anys de pràctica?

    És important revisar la qualitat de la pràctica i assegurar-se que s'està treballant de manera eficient.

  • Com es pot mantenir la motivació per practicar?

    Gaudir del procés d'aprenentatge i establir objectius realistes pot ajudar a mantenir la motivació.

  • Quin consell donaria a un músic que comença?

    Ser pacient, comprometre's amb la pràctica i gaudir del viatge d'aprenentatge.

  • Quina és la relació entre la pràctica i la salut mental?

    La pràctica pot ser terapèutica, però és important no caure en l'obsessió que pot afectar la salut mental.

  • Quin és el millor enfocament per aprendre un nou estil musical?

    Dedicar temps a estudiar i practicar de manera constant, així com buscar recursos i mentors.

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    for
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    hello everyone Dennis CH here it's my
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    last video video of the Year guess what
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    I'm feeling really really sick right now
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    I'm not feeling good at all but you know
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    I still manage to smile that's how good
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    I am at this um you you got to do it for
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    the algorithm if you don't do it YouTube
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    punishes you please don't punish me but
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    uh I'd really appreciate if you could
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    like And subscribe I have a massive
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    massive headache I don't know what's
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    going on been sick for the last few days
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    and I have a flight tomorrow
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    anyway um lately I've been
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    practicing up to 12 hours a day it's I
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    haven't done this in a long long long
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    time in maybe over 20
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    years and I kind of just want to share
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    some of uh my observations with you the
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    difference between now and then was that
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    in those days when I practiced up to 10
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    hours 12 hours a day I didn't really
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    know how to practice efficiently whereas
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    now I know how to practice very very
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    efficiently in order to get maximum
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    results uh as fast as possible of course
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    uh progressing as a musician is not a
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    race but as many of you might know as
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    you get older responsibilities pile up
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    and you have to be very efficient with
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    your time uh and this is a skill that I
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    acquired over many years from
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    teaching so many people around the world
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    uh through online lessons workshops
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    private lessons Homestay
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    students um and then
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    also being in this kind of unique
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    situation where I get to hang out with
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    someone of the most famous play famous
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    doesn't mean anything but some of the
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    most uh respected players in the world
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    ber LR Angelo Dear Pat Martino Ula kenos
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    uh Mike Stern people with whom I spent a
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    lot of time working and people whose
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    brain I got to pick we had a lot of
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    interesting convers and I learned so
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    much I asked them a lot of questions
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    about how they practice and I realized I
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    kind of extracted you know um the common
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    the common points between all these
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    artists and I I I've been talking about
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    that in my previous videos so if you're
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    new to my channel be sure to like be
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    sure to subscribe
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    please um but definitely the past few
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    weeks that's been the topic uh how to
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    practice efficiently now here's the
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    thing it's not a
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    secret it's actually not very very
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    complicated but what makes it so hard is
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    that it
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    requires um a certain certain sense of
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    humility and willing to accept that this
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    is the way to do
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    things and on paper it's very very
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    simple but to put into practice is
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    extremely extremely hard which is why
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    statistically most people fail and I was
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    compelled to do this video because of
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    this these comments um that I saw on my
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    YouTube channel I'm going to put them on
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    the screen here clearly this guy is very
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    very upset with me but why don't shoot
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    the
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    messenger like how dare you sorry Greta
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    but okay so obviously this guy is very
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    very upset then a friend of mine also in
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    another video posted this comment which
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    I'm going to share right
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    now oh he's a cool dude I like them and
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    um but I want to clarify certain things
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    about that statement it's not that I
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    disagree but it's not that I agree
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    either it's we have to uh clarify
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    certain things so there we go let's
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    let's talk about that so this first
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    person was
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    complaining how dare he dares me to name
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    people I can name many people I will but
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    um talking about the factor of talent
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    which obviously exists I actually made a
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    video about this as well I've been
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    putting a lot of thought into these
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    topics over the the past few years hold
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    on feeling
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    dizzy hey who knows maybe this is my
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    last
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    video oo dark humor
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    [Music]
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    beautiful okay well what was I talking
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    about oh yes yes yes okay so
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    listen I was one of those people uh who
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    was not taught correctly who was very
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    eager to learn who practiced so hard and
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    it took me many years to achieve what
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    most people can now achieve in just
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    months so what this person takes offense
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    to is the statement that I constantly
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    I've been making for the past few years
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    cuz I I believe it to be so true that
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    within three 3 years one can become a
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    fairly decent musician within 5 years
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    one can be very good and even surpass a
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    lot of quote unquote PR musicians now
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    here's the thing a pro musician has very
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    little to do with being good PR musician
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    in the sense that you make money from
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    musical activities means basically that
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    maybe you're good at at marketing
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    yourself there are lots of amazing
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    ridiculously amazing musicians out there
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    in the world who barely scrap by some
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    Sometimes some of them have day jobs
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    they can
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    outplay quote unquote Pro musicians then
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    you have Pro musicians who are very very
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    limited in what they could do
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    musically um we're talking about jazz of
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    course but it applies to almost any
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    style of music um you guys all know this
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    right so I don't have to really say this
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    so so what I'm saying within 5 years you
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    can be like really really good m a
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    really really high level musician I
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    stand by it however I'm not talking
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    about musicians of the caliber of say uh
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    Keith Jarrett
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    uh pasal Gro ber
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    Len those like these are the musicians
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    that the top musicians look up to those
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    people are of a separate category and
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    and I've shared this story before but
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    the first time I worked with silv Luke
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    who is also of that category who
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    unfortunately passed away Bean of the
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    year the first time I met him um he
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    walks into the studio and one of the
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    first things he says he told me he
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    checked on my YouTube channel he checked
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    out my play and he said to me in French
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    Dennis you're a really really really
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    good guitar player you're really really
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    good I was like wa that made me feel so
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    happy but also like kind of shy and
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    awkward because I'm in front of a giant
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    like obviously I cannot compare myself
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    to him at all and I was like oh thank
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    you but uh like you know next to guys
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    like you and beell I'm nothing and what
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    he replied was so funny of but it's true
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    it's not arrogant of him to say this but
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    he said ah but you know of course not
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    berelli and I we are of are of another
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    category
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    altogether and I like that so I'm not
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    talking about people like that I'm
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    talking about just like the average
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    generic musician you can be very very
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    good within 5 years I know so because
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    I've I've seen it happen regularly with
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    people who knew how to apply the right
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    method which I've been sharing with you
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    over the past few weeks over the past
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    month I've been practicing up to 12
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    hours a day of course sometimes I have
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    life responsibility so sometimes but
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    minimum minimum 5 hours a day between 5
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    and 12 hours a
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    day um been practicing flamco I got into
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    that recently I I'll save that for
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    another time I I was kind of reluctant
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    about learning flamco and I don't know
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    to be honest I don't know how far I want
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    to go with it because to me this is such
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    a huge commitment if I if I want to get
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    even decent I have to spend at least
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    three years I'm talking about de I'm not
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    good just 3 years I can tell I have to
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    spend 3 years practicing at least 3 to 4
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    hours a
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    day um but you know just a month ago I
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    couldn't even do things like this
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    [Music]
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    I couldn't do
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    this I had to practice it like
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    this you like how my guitars Out Of Tune
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    amazing I spent hours doing just that
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    okay I'll T my guitar
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    fine um
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    and here I'm not warmed up that I spent
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    all day in bed I just decided I had to
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    make this video
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    now cuz I'm leaving Tokyo tomorrow I'm
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    going to the west coast of Japan I'm not
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    bringing my I'm not going to work while
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    I'm there but if I'm warmed up I could
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    do this
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    faster I couldn't do what we call abano
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    raso
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    [Music]
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    lot of things are a lot of like Compass
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    didn't know PA I didn't
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    [Music]
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    know Alia
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    of different Rhythm SE for
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    [Music]
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    example tons of different things as
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    AA tons of different techniques that
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    I've been working on the main difference
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    between then and now is in order to be
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    efficient I know that I have to work on
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    actual music I have to think about the
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    music I have to be very careful about
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    the technique about the sound
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    production um and I've been you know
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    I've actually hit up some musicians for
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    lessons watch a lot of YouTube tutorials
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    read a lot about the history and all
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    that
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    stuff o it's getting hot burning
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    up
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    okay but this video is not about flamco
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    it's just about the act of practice
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    being efficient and being able to
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    progress
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    well in a whole month I managed to
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    acquire a lot of new skills a lot of
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    knowledge this from practicing at least
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    5 hours a day um but not just practicing
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    5 hours but also like listening to the
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    music all day while going for a walk I
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    put on you know a
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    YouTube uh channel of they tons of
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    there's a lot of great resources for
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    learning flamco online it's amazing it's
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    insane a lot of it is in Spanish but
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    there's some good English material but I
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    watch a lot of tutorial videos watching
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    all day listening so even though
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    physically practicing maybe 5 hours at
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    least but all day listening to the music
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    all this while studying Japanese as well
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    at the same time multitasking anyway of
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    course the best thing for me to do would
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    be to move to Spain to learn Spanish and
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    all that
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    stuff but I that's kind of like the
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    problem for me is like I don't I don't
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    know how far I want go with it obviously
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    if I if I really love it that much
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    that's what I would have to do but uh
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    probably don't love it that much so it's
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    these two comments I want to
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    address uh one from my friend who says
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    that even 3 hours is not going to cut it
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    you have to do it all
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    day now to reach the level of someone
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    like s van or B yes um definitely you
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    have to do it all day for quite a number
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    of years between I would say between 5
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    to 8 years to start to reach this kind
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    of level of uh
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    Ridiculousness but for people who manage
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    to physically practice three hours a day
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    but even like two hours a day two to 4
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    hours a day you can reach a very very
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    high level I I I firmly believe this you
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    guys know this George Benson technique
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    [Music]
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    well this George Ben sing I didn't spend
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    10 hours a day practicing it I I might
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    have practiced it
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    like you know half an hour a day 1 hour
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    a day for few
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    months it's not as good as my other
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    techniques but it's decent
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    [Music]
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    I would sound better on an electric
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    guitar with a narrower neck but see I
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    didn't practice that hard but I got
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    decent at it uh that's the key word
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    decent don't have to
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    be a God you just have to be good so the
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    standard is significantly low lower so
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    the person complaining why aren't all my
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    students uh achieving these
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    results and I have said these in my
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    videos and I'll say it again here a lot
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    of
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    people on paper the thing the the the
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    advice is very simple but to actually go
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    through with it is not easy for so many
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    reasons a lot of it is
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    psychological and um you have to go
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    through uh
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    I mean for lack of a better word
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    hopefully it doesn't come off the wrong
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    way but you have to torture yourself to
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    acquire the skill it's kind of like boot
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    camp you have to work for it you have to
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    desire it so badly so badly that you're
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    willing to do anything for it you're
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    going to sacrifice a lot of your
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    personal life in order to acquire these
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    skills and this is a skill these are
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    skills that are not developed overnight
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    not over a week uh every time you kind
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    of level up it takes about 6 months and
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    then you have to do it for like I said
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    at least 3
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    years
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    minimum consistently and you can't be
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    half F about it for example I had one
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    person who came to me wanted to learn
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    gypsy jazz guitar
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    technique and I I I don't remember but I
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    I I I do seem to remember telling that
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    person you know your Technique is fine
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    as it is why do you want to change it to
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    kind of quote unquote the traditional
  • 00:16:28
    pure way I guess that person just had
  • 00:16:30
    this idea that they they should do it
  • 00:16:33
    just because that's how all the best
  • 00:16:35
    players play but that person is already
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    like a semi-professional musician but he
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    came to me spent a week with
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    me and I gave them I gave him the the
  • 00:16:48
    instructions on how to practice what to
  • 00:16:50
    look out for and after a week I told
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    them if you continue this way for at
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    least 6 months doing it like you know
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    maybe 2 hours a day 3 hours the more you
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    do it of course uh you'll start to get
  • 00:17:04
    the hang of it but not that's that's not
  • 00:17:06
    enough what's going to make the biggest
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    difference because you're a
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    semi-professional musician is if you
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    start playing gigs you're going to have
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    to switch to your new tech to the
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    technique that you want to develop
  • 00:17:19
    develop because if you revert back to
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    your old you're going to your brain's
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    going to get confused the muscle memory
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    is going to have a lot of
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    trouble so we spent one week it was
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    highly successful but a year later when
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    I saw that person play they were back to
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    their old technique I didn't want to
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    talk to that person about why they gave
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    up or anything but you see uh maybe that
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    person didn't want it that badly after
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    all fair enough how badly do you want to
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    do things quote unquote uh I don't want
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    to use the word correctly that's not
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    what I mean I'm not saying that that
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    person has bad technique but that person
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    specifically came to me for something
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    but eventually gave up because like I
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    said it's torture uh but the thing is
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    you enjoy this torture you have to enjoy
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    the process for me for a lot of like the
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    most talented people it doesn't feel
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    like torture it's just so much joy to
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    spend hours and hours figuring stuff out
  • 00:18:18
    and being very very diligent being very
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    strict with oneself to make sure that
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    they're doing correctly with a good
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    sound good mechanics Etc I remember
  • 00:18:26
    talking to Pat Martino he told me when
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    he was a kid like how you just spend all
  • 00:18:30
    day sometimes I think he was in the back
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    of a truck or something on tour and he
  • 00:18:34
    would just had his guitar and just be
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    practicing lines and things like that
  • 00:18:38
    all day all day you have to be so
  • 00:18:41
    obsessive with it you have to have kind
  • 00:18:43
    of something wrong with you those who
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    are willing to go through this kind of
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    training maybe there's something wrong
  • 00:18:50
    with us so I don't blame anyone for not
  • 00:18:53
    wanting to go through with this this
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    process I'm assuming it's kind of the
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    same if you want to be a surgeon it's
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    not
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    like you're good right away you probably
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    spend a lot of time practicing
  • 00:19:05
    practicing practicing being very strict
  • 00:19:07
    to get that medical license to become a
  • 00:19:11
    surgeon you have to make sure you're
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    doing it correctly CU if not you're
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    screwed you can't be a surgeon right
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    um in in some ways it's it's stressful
  • 00:19:23
    but I don't feel the stress when I pra
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    when I've been practicing 10 hours a day
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    I I love every moment of it it's just
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    like it was so therapeutic for me but I
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    wasn't practicing la la la practicing I
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    was really really zoning make sure I was
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    doing things
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    [Music]
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    properly this abaniko I
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    was paying attention to the
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    mechanics to the sound putting on the
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    metronum right a whole month ago I do
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    this same thing with picato you know I
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    went to a jam session the other day
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    where I just used picato the whole way
  • 00:20:05
    through didn't use pick um it wasn't
  • 00:20:08
    perfect but you know it's like if you
  • 00:20:10
    really want to get good at something you
  • 00:20:12
    have to adopt the new mindset and you're
  • 00:20:14
    going to have to accept that you're not
  • 00:20:15
    going to be as
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    good um for the next few months maybe
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    the next two years
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    [Music]
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    e
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    n
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    [Music]
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    I think it'd be pretty cool if I faint
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    it on camera because it would be
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    captured Live on YouTube you can take
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    pity on me and buy something on DC music
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    school just having its end of year
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    sale how was
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    that so there are two things one people
  • 00:22:26
    are afraid of practicing correctly
  • 00:22:29
    some people don't know how to practice
  • 00:22:30
    correctly they weren't taught
  • 00:22:32
    how and some people were taught how but
  • 00:22:35
    they're afraid to go through with it and
  • 00:22:38
    then there are people who are taught how
  • 00:22:40
    and they go through with it to a certain
  • 00:22:43
    degree because it's not just an on and
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    off switch it's actually a spectrum you
  • 00:22:48
    choose how hard you want to go like to
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    be honest I would say my Flamingo
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    studies are about 70% serious if I want
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    to be even more serious I'd be while I
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    move to Spain seek out the musicians
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    look for dance studios and ask if I can
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    practice like just find a a mentor and
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    everything but still I'm practicing
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    fairly seriously same thing with this uh
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    George Benson
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    technique um I didn't go all the way
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    through so I'm not as proficient as
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    someone Cecil Alexander George Bon or
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    Dan Wilson but I can use the technique I
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    can play pretty fast if you give me
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    electric guitar and if I'm warmed
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    [Music]
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    up um yeah yeah yeah so it's a spectrum
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    you now it's true among the people that
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    I've taught
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    very uh very few people
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    committed to doing things to even let's
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    say up to
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    50% of the advice that I gave them I
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    remember I gave lessons to some people
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    who are fantastic soloists they're such
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    good soloists but when they have to play
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    Rhythm it was not so good like their
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    Tempo was like dragging significantly
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    and to this day they still haven't
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    corrected
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    that because I I I feel to to correct
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    that again you're going to have to spend
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    hours and hours for months at least one
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    year of practicing it very seriously
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    with so much conscious effort to correct
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    Ed and it's frustrating because you play
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    solo so
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    well but you have this other fundamental
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    skill that you're not willing to to
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    correct for various reasons it's kind of
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    a crush on your ego so you have to kind
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    of just like humble yourself
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    significantly I worked a lot on
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    accompanyment because I figured that's
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    one of the ways I could make money as a
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    musician so I learned to learn fast it's
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    a skill that I acquired
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    I learned to accompany as well as I
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    could in the gypsy jazz styles and
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    that's how I was able to accompany
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    people like Angelo dear sta Rosenberg B
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    all these great players sometimes I was
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    flown out all the way just to another
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    country just to play Rhythm for them
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    that's how it was with Moses rosener
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    they flew me to Hong Kong to play Rhythm
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    for
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    him um so you have to choose your B
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    battles what's it worth to you
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    [Music]
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    that said I want to mention a few people
  • 00:25:31
    that I know who know the right way to
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    practice and who have implement it to
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    whatever degree that they chose to
  • 00:25:39
    implement it to so the first one I want
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    to talk about is my friend Guan
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    compuesto from Wisconsin I've talked
  • 00:25:44
    about him in previous videos he watches
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    this YouTube channel is someone that I
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    admire very much he's a family man two
  • 00:25:51
    kids got a dog a wife he's got a
  • 00:25:53
    full-time
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    job and um he plays semi-professionally
  • 00:25:58
    but like he barely has time to practice
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    but he learned how to learn and for a
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    guy who barely has any time to practice
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    he managed to reach a certain level like
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    a decent level I must say and he chose
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    to focus on certain things that are
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    realistic they like I I've already
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    repeated I'm repeating the same story
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    but he chose to focus a lot on acc
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    compan so he plays rhythm guitar for a
  • 00:26:21
    lot of bands in Madison Wisconsin but
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    he's actually pretty decent solo player
  • 00:26:26
    and that's not bad for a guy who
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    probably only has time to practice 20
  • 00:26:31
    minutes maybe one hour a day it's
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    amazing another guy I want to talk about
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    is Will
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    Dickerson I met this guy randomly while
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    he was a College University student
  • 00:26:42
    doing his Masters in engineering the
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    first time I met him I kind of blew him
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    off just because statistically most
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    people who are busy doing something else
  • 00:26:53
    like engineering or have a full-time job
  • 00:26:56
    if they like I said if you really want
  • 00:26:57
    to get good you have to sacrifice
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    something and statistically most people
  • 00:27:02
    are not willing to put in that effort so
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    I blew him off the first time but then I
  • 00:27:07
    ran him to him randomly again another
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    time while I was in the streets playing
  • 00:27:12
    and he's kind of like man I really love
  • 00:27:14
    just I love it so much and he
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    showed me what he managed to learn on
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    his own and I was very impressed wow you
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    learned this on your own without a
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    teacher so I said all right I'm going to
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    show you some things I showed them kind
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    of the way and now
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    he's uh well he's uh he's he's living in
  • 00:27:32
    Austin Texas now I think he has a
  • 00:27:33
    full-time job as an engineer whatever
  • 00:27:35
    but he's also playing
  • 00:27:36
    semi-professionally and he's recording
  • 00:27:38
    an album of which I heard it is amazing
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    his his soul Ling is so good and
  • 00:27:43
    actually his rhythm playing is also very
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    good he's a very uh well-balanced
  • 00:27:47
    musician now again he's focusing on
  • 00:27:50
    gypsy jazz and he does it very very well
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    he's a really really good gypsy jazz
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    player so that's one guy
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    uh another one is my friend Zach Martell
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    this guy moved to Montreal just to be my
  • 00:28:04
    neighbor just to live just to live close
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    to me so he can learn from me so so when
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    someone's that dedicated of course I'm
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    going to show them the way so we focused
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    a lot on accompaniment on learning how
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    to
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    learn and when he first came to me he
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    had a degree in I think Jazz but if
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    you're watching this sorry but I think
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    you'll agree with me you were taught
  • 00:28:27
    wrong
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    but I taught you the right way and again
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    you're playing very very very well great
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    gypsy jazz player you can find these
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    people on YouTube type Zack Martell z a
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    k or z a k m a r TL uh will Dickerson um
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    probably don't have to spell that for
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    you Gan
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    compuesto those are three
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    names that uh that that I can think of
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    off the top of my head of people who
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    were willing to sacrifice
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    something cuz man will Dickerson when he
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    was doing his Masters in
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    engineering he would wake up every
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    morning just to practice one hour or two
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    hours go to school then go home and
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    practice another hour hour or two and he
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    did that for a number of years so he was
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    doing three four hours despite being a
  • 00:29:21
    busy master student engineering Zach
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    Martell practiced so much as well
  • 00:29:29
    um yeah these are people who were
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    willing to sacrifice something who
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    accepted that there's going to be pain
  • 00:29:34
    and you have to do it and you have to be
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    very strict with yourself so getting the
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    good in the right instruction it's not
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    even a secret is not enough you have to
  • 00:29:44
    really be willing to go through with it
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    um so about this Talent thing now Talent
  • 00:29:51
    certainly does exist some people learn
  • 00:29:54
    faster than others but what's one thing
  • 00:29:55
    that's in common like I talked to B sto
  • 00:29:59
    uh mik Stern whatever all these players
  • 00:30:01
    what's one thing they all had in common
  • 00:30:03
    is they spent hours and hours like there
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    was a period of their life where they
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    were practicing 10 hours a day so talent
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    in itself is not because actually I've
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    met people who I think are more talented
  • 00:30:13
    than me but they will never catch up to
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    me because they're not willing to
  • 00:30:19
    sacrifice something you have to pay the
  • 00:30:21
    price
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    unfortunately um I was willing to pay
  • 00:30:25
    the price up to a certain extent on
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    unfortunately I I don't I no longer have
  • 00:30:30
    goals of being like a Godlike player or
  • 00:30:33
    anything I'm I've kind of decided that
  • 00:30:38
    I'm I don't want to say satisfied but
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    like I've accepted my level I've made
  • 00:30:43
    peace with it obviously I can be way way
  • 00:30:46
    better but I've made peace with it cuz
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    I'm I realize now the price to reach the
  • 00:30:50
    other the next level is spend another
  • 00:30:53
    three or five years practicing 10 hours
  • 00:30:56
    a day
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    and I don't know if I'm willing to do
  • 00:31:00
    that for for jazz guitar right now I'm
  • 00:31:03
    doing for Flamingo I don't know how long
  • 00:31:05
    that's going to last to be honest maybe
  • 00:31:06
    it's going to last another year or so
  • 00:31:08
    we'll see definitely at one point
  • 00:31:10
    because uh I have to make money I have
  • 00:31:13
    to write books I have to make content
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    Etc
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    so it's not realistic for me to be
  • 00:31:20
    practicing 10 hours a day I did it for
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    this one past month because I kind of no
  • 00:31:24
    I didn't have time I shouldn't have I
  • 00:31:27
    need money
  • 00:31:28
    but I I just got carried away I couldn't
  • 00:31:31
    help myself definitely if I had the
  • 00:31:33
    knowledge that I have now when I when I
  • 00:31:35
    was 20 or 25 years younger then yes I
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    would have gone for it at that time so
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    see it's not the age
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    thing it's not about the age in itself
  • 00:31:45
    but as many of you know like
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    statistically as you get older you have
  • 00:31:48
    responsibilities you have a lot of
  • 00:31:50
    different things in life that that come
  • 00:31:52
    into play that it's better to do this
  • 00:31:54
    when you are younger
  • 00:31:58
    and then that's why there's some people
  • 00:32:00
    I've met I'm going to work hard so that
  • 00:32:02
    I can retire and spend all day
  • 00:32:04
    practicing to get good well I don't
  • 00:32:07
    agree with that either because like I
  • 00:32:10
    said let's say you retire even if you
  • 00:32:12
    retire early let's say you're 50 years
  • 00:32:14
    old you have a lot of
  • 00:32:16
    money but are you going to go are you
  • 00:32:19
    willing to go through Boot Camp style
  • 00:32:23
    training you know you've had a long life
  • 00:32:25
    you worked real hard and then to go
  • 00:32:27
    through this kind of like excruciating
  • 00:32:30
    like training regimen for 5 years there
  • 00:32:35
    statistically no no one like that
  • 00:32:38
    theoretically it's possible but
  • 00:32:40
    statistically uh name someone who kind
  • 00:32:44
    of started From almost scratch past the
  • 00:32:47
    age of something I don't know let past
  • 00:32:48
    the age of 50 say who was willing to
  • 00:32:51
    practice like a madman and with the
  • 00:32:55
    correct method and who reached the level
  • 00:32:56
    of uh
  • 00:32:59
    of ber LR or not okay maybe not B but
  • 00:33:02
    let's say My Level that's not to say
  • 00:33:06
    that people who are older cannot
  • 00:33:07
    progress of course they can but to to
  • 00:33:11
    Really as my friend says in this comment
  • 00:33:13
    like he that's where he's correct in
  • 00:33:15
    saying that you have to spend like a
  • 00:33:16
    lifetime not a lifetime but like
  • 00:33:18
    immerses of 10 hours and it's so
  • 00:33:21
    hardcore uh it's it's not in some ways
  • 00:33:24
    it's not pleasant but if you spend 2
  • 00:33:27
    hours a day 3 hours okay then you can
  • 00:33:29
    get decent and yes in that case I do
  • 00:33:32
    know a few people over the age of 50 who
  • 00:33:36
    are like that but not many there's a guy
  • 00:33:38
    in Montana he used to be from Texas his
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    name is
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    Max forgot his what is I think his name
  • 00:33:45
    is Max forgot what his last name is he's
  • 00:33:48
    someone every year I see him at the
  • 00:33:50
    gypsy jazz Camp I always see him getting
  • 00:33:52
    better and better so that's but he's an
  • 00:33:55
    exception he's not the rule
  • 00:33:56
    statistically as you get older you kind
  • 00:33:57
    of like psychologically fed up with like
  • 00:34:00
    putting in so much effort right you want
  • 00:34:03
    to enjoy life you should enjoy life
  • 00:34:07
    um so I don't blame anyone for not want
  • 00:34:10
    willing being willing to go through with
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    certain things because is the reward
  • 00:34:15
    even worth it what you get for it um
  • 00:34:19
    besides self-satisfaction you're just
  • 00:34:20
    going to be impressing other nerds like
  • 00:34:23
    yourself who are a minority in life you
  • 00:34:25
    just don't want to be a minority
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    [Music]
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    guys don't cancel me please I'm feeling
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    really really sick I really am feeling
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    really sick
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    okay I've made peace with the fact that
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    there are all these young kids who could
  • 00:34:44
    out shred me but I can still hold my own
  • 00:34:48
    I I I hold on to that thing that silv
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    Luke said you know for just the average
  • 00:34:54
    musician I'm pretty good I'm pretty
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    decent and I'm just I'm I'm content with
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    that I'm just not going to I'm not
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    willing to
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    spend over over six hours a day for the
  • 00:35:04
    next 5 years to reach the next level
  • 00:35:06
    asking too much of me at this point of
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    my life now that I'm 42 years old for a
  • 00:35:10
    lot of I think for a lot of these
  • 00:35:12
    talented people I asked ber
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    LR when you were younger was there any
  • 00:35:16
    moment in your life where you felt oh
  • 00:35:19
    this is so hard like I'm struggling with
  • 00:35:21
    this I better like pay attention to this
  • 00:35:22
    and B said no guitar was always very
  • 00:35:26
    easy for me I just couldn't help but
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    laughing I was like oh okay now I I I
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    made a video about Talent you should
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    watch this but um just to summarize
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    let's let's put it this way let's talent
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    for me is not being aware that you are
  • 00:35:45
    doing things the correct way and when
  • 00:35:47
    you're not aware you get kind of you get
  • 00:35:49
    to bypass this step where you have to
  • 00:35:52
    think a lot like for example let's say
  • 00:35:55
    the most efficient way to play this
  • 00:35:58
    phrase is like this let's just say it is
  • 00:36:01
    right now let's say for some reason you
  • 00:36:04
    you don't know you can play this way you
  • 00:36:05
    think you have to play like
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    [Music]
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    this so you spent many years practicing
  • 00:36:13
    this
  • 00:36:14
    phrase but that's only as fast as you
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    can get hor
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    me right so the talented person
  • 00:36:23
    realized this is the best way to do it
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    the
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    [Music]
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    or like there are some people who never
  • 00:36:38
    practiced with a metronome because they
  • 00:36:41
    just
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    naturally felt the Rhythm in the right
  • 00:36:45
    way in the pocket whereas some people
  • 00:36:48
    like myself I had to put on the
  • 00:36:50
    metronome I had to be very very mindful
  • 00:36:52
    to really concentrate I had to fight my
  • 00:36:54
    urges not to do the thing that I
  • 00:36:57
    shouldn't be doing and that took a lot a
  • 00:37:00
    lot a lot of
  • 00:37:02
    concentration I managed to fix that
  • 00:37:05
    mistake because that was one of the the
  • 00:37:07
    complaints that I used to get from
  • 00:37:08
    people who whom I admired so much they
  • 00:37:10
    used to complain about my time F so I
  • 00:37:12
    addressed
  • 00:37:13
    it I mean it's still not perfect but
  • 00:37:17
    it's way way better than it used to be
  • 00:37:19
    so I'm proof that if you're willing to
  • 00:37:22
    go for it you can do it but like I said
  • 00:37:24
    I had to quote unquote torture myself
  • 00:37:27
    and I went through periods where I did
  • 00:37:29
    have brain fatigue but again I was never
  • 00:37:31
    really depressed I just like I just
  • 00:37:33
    accepted I just said all right I'm
  • 00:37:35
    screwing up I need to practice I need to
  • 00:37:38
    address it because if I don't address it
  • 00:37:40
    then I won't fix it it's just as simple
  • 00:37:42
    as that but boy that I spent hours for
  • 00:37:46
    months for years just to just to fix it
  • 00:37:51
    just to correct it are you guys willing
  • 00:37:53
    to do that I don't know so I think also
  • 00:37:57
    Talent exists on a spectrum some people
  • 00:37:59
    are talented for technique some people
  • 00:38:01
    are talented for rhythm some people are
  • 00:38:03
    talented for harmony for Melody blah
  • 00:38:05
    blah blah blah blah now very very few
  • 00:38:08
    people are kind of talented across all
  • 00:38:10
    Fields like b
  • 00:38:13
    g uh and though so those for those our
  • 00:38:16
    weakness areas then we kind of have to
  • 00:38:18
    find help we have to get some guidance
  • 00:38:22
    somewhere and then we have to put in
  • 00:38:24
    some thought and so it's true that let's
  • 00:38:27
    say someone who is not talented across
  • 00:38:29
    all boards who has weaknesses in Rhythm
  • 00:38:32
    Harmony Melody blah blah blah that
  • 00:38:34
    person will require a lot of help a lot
  • 00:38:36
    of instruction and then that person will
  • 00:38:38
    have to very very strictly follow those
  • 00:38:43
    instructions for 3 years practicing 3 to
  • 00:38:46
    four hours a day are they willing to do
  • 00:38:50
    that and if they're not I don't blame
  • 00:38:52
    them but I do believe that those people
  • 00:38:56
    can be decent and can be good good
  • 00:38:58
    because again I have met people
  • 00:39:02
    uh if I if he doesn't mind me saying
  • 00:39:05
    Zack Marell was one such person he had
  • 00:39:06
    like certain difficulties with quite a
  • 00:39:08
    number of different things but I told
  • 00:39:09
    him right you got to practice this way
  • 00:39:11
    you got to do it very strictly like this
  • 00:39:13
    and he overcame them but again those
  • 00:39:16
    people are the minority he loves music
  • 00:39:18
    that much and he's willing to face the
  • 00:39:20
    facts so if you're willing to face the
  • 00:39:23
    facts and being be honest with yourself
  • 00:39:25
    then yes you you can get good so the
  • 00:39:28
    person who was complaining he is
  • 00:39:29
    definitely right that a lot of people
  • 00:39:33
    there's a reason why people don't manage
  • 00:39:37
    to get
  • 00:39:38
    good um but it's not necessarily Talent
  • 00:39:43
    itself it's just like maybe they don't
  • 00:39:46
    want to they don't want it that badly
  • 00:39:48
    it's causing them too much emotional
  • 00:39:51
    mental damage to to to get good and
  • 00:39:55
    that's important too take care of
  • 00:39:56
    yourself if maybe music being good at
  • 00:39:59
    music or being decent is not for you
  • 00:40:02
    it's it's totally fine because there
  • 00:40:03
    actually there are people there are
  • 00:40:04
    mediocre musicians out there gigging
  • 00:40:06
    they're living happy lives they're
  • 00:40:08
    content with their level that that's
  • 00:40:10
    totally fine too man there's nothing
  • 00:40:12
    wrong with that I'm not making this
  • 00:40:13
    video to scare anyone away to be honest
  • 00:40:15
    but I want to be truthful to be very
  • 00:40:17
    honest I also want to be truthful with
  • 00:40:19
    myself that I really worked so hard and
  • 00:40:23
    I'm very strict with myself when I
  • 00:40:26
    practice and and so that that's how I'm
  • 00:40:28
    being I can be very efficient how I can
  • 00:40:30
    make progress really quickly 2 and 1
  • 00:40:33
    half years ago I spoke almost no
  • 00:40:36
    Japanese but now I get by people think
  • 00:40:39
    that I've been studying longer than I
  • 00:40:40
    have but it's not true I I I haven't
  • 00:40:42
    mastered the language but uh actually
  • 00:40:45
    see I'm decent at Japanese nowhere near
  • 00:40:47
    native definitely not but I could
  • 00:40:50
    actually choose to stop my studies today
  • 00:40:52
    and live a relatively comfortable life
  • 00:40:55
    in Japan I could do almost everything I
  • 00:40:58
    need to do with my current level but I'm
  • 00:41:00
    not satisfied with this level I want to
  • 00:41:02
    go higher get better I told myself I
  • 00:41:04
    want to study another at least another
  • 00:41:06
    two years like really really
  • 00:41:09
    hard so you have to set the bar you have
  • 00:41:12
    to set the limit how far do you want to
  • 00:41:14
    go and how how much are you willing to
  • 00:41:17
    pay the price I've mentioned this as
  • 00:41:20
    well before because uh I've met people
  • 00:41:25
    who have been practicing who say they've
  • 00:41:27
    practicing 2 3 hours a day for 30 years
  • 00:41:31
    40 years plus but they're not
  • 00:41:34
    progressing so I do know this one guy as
  • 00:41:37
    a full-time job as a family he spends
  • 00:41:40
    two hours a day Apparently after work
  • 00:41:43
    practicing and after 30 years his
  • 00:41:47
    playing has not
  • 00:41:49
    changed his playing is exactly the same
  • 00:41:52
    20 years as it was 20 years ago when the
  • 00:41:55
    first time I heard him play as it is
  • 00:41:57
    today 25 years ago exactly the
  • 00:42:01
    same so I think that
  • 00:42:05
    person well I've said this before when
  • 00:42:08
    you grab the
  • 00:42:10
    guitar what is your purpose is it you
  • 00:42:13
    play the guitar for for therapy then if
  • 00:42:16
    that's the case yeah do whatever you
  • 00:42:19
    want don't have to progress you just
  • 00:42:20
    have fun that's your therapy that's your
  • 00:42:22
    hobby you're just enjoying the moment
  • 00:42:25
    but to say that this person is
  • 00:42:27
    practicing would be a lie they're
  • 00:42:29
    wasting their time if their goal was
  • 00:42:31
    actually to reach the next level then
  • 00:42:33
    they've been wasting their time for 25
  • 00:42:35
    years and that's what kind of why I'm
  • 00:42:37
    making this video I don't want you guys
  • 00:42:38
    to waste your time I want you to be
  • 00:42:40
    honest yourselves with yourselves do you
  • 00:42:42
    truly want to progress if you really
  • 00:42:44
    want to progress you should be seeing
  • 00:42:46
    results fairly noticeable results almost
  • 00:42:49
    every month es significant results every
  • 00:42:52
    6 months remember 6 months ago I
  • 00:42:54
    couldn't do this
  • 00:42:57
    or things like
  • 00:42:58
    [Music]
  • 00:43:03
    this I couldn't do any of that six
  • 00:43:05
    months ago so you see the difference
  • 00:43:07
    between six months and
  • 00:43:09
    today
  • 00:43:11
    um you need to see differences like that
  • 00:43:14
    every six month if you truly want to
  • 00:43:16
    progress and practicing two hours a
  • 00:43:19
    day that's enough to see some kind of
  • 00:43:23
    difference and there's no difference
  • 00:43:24
    from 25 years ago and today then you're
  • 00:43:26
    doing something very very very wrong and
  • 00:43:29
    that's what it was with me you know it's
  • 00:43:30
    it's a bit frustrating but that's what
  • 00:43:32
    life was I don't come from a musical
  • 00:43:34
    family I didn't have the resources like
  • 00:43:37
    the the natural
  • 00:43:39
    resources to be learning in the best
  • 00:43:42
    environment everything I had to do I had
  • 00:43:44
    to fight for myself out of my own love
  • 00:43:47
    for the
  • 00:43:48
    music so in the beginning when I did
  • 00:43:50
    practice 10 hours a day some of that
  • 00:43:54
    maybe 9 hours of those who probably
  • 00:43:58
    useless um it took a lot of time for me
  • 00:44:02
    to learn how to learn properly lot there
  • 00:44:03
    are a lot of people
  • 00:44:05
    achieving uh in 6 months what took me 5
  • 00:44:11
    years it's
  • 00:44:13
    just a reality that I have to accept but
  • 00:44:17
    that's great I'm very happy that there
  • 00:44:19
    now so so much like uh material
  • 00:44:22
    available to to people around the world
  • 00:44:25
    it makes me really really happy so I
  • 00:44:27
    make these videos to kind of hopefully
  • 00:44:30
    give some of you guys some hope some
  • 00:44:32
    things to think about to hopefully
  • 00:44:33
    inspire you to work hard to accept that
  • 00:44:37
    you have to work hard but you should
  • 00:44:40
    enjoy the process you don't if you don't
  • 00:44:42
    enjoy the process it's totally be it's
  • 00:44:44
    totally fine be honest with yourself
  • 00:44:46
    because I don't want to see you suffer
  • 00:44:48
    from mental health issues because some
  • 00:44:50
    there are some players I'm not going to
  • 00:44:51
    name names like great players who have
  • 00:44:54
    significant uh mental health issues now
  • 00:44:57
    whether they had those mental health
  • 00:44:59
    issues before or they started practicing
  • 00:45:03
    or it happened because they practice so
  • 00:45:05
    much who knows it's a chicken and egg
  • 00:45:07
    kind of thing um because I know that I
  • 00:45:10
    have OCD I'm the kind of guy who gets
  • 00:45:12
    kind of like really upset that's how
  • 00:45:14
    it's easy for me to put in so many hours
  • 00:45:17
    and if you're not OCD that's totally
  • 00:45:20
    fine maybe in the comments you can tell
  • 00:45:21
    me what kind of what your shortterm and
  • 00:45:23
    long terms go like within 3 years I wish
  • 00:45:25
    to be able to do this within 5 years I
  • 00:45:27
    want to do this tell me what your goals
  • 00:45:29
    are your realistic goals let's be
  • 00:45:31
    realistic as well not saying I'm going
  • 00:45:32
    to be the next B but cuz probably if
  • 00:45:34
    you're going to be the next berelli
  • 00:45:35
    you're not you don't need to be watching
  • 00:45:37
    my videos you already have this kind of
  • 00:45:39
    talent you already know how to practice
  • 00:45:41
    correctly but yeah so guys Happy New
  • 00:45:45
    Year thank you so much for supporting my
  • 00:45:46
    channel and see you in
  • 00:45:49
    2025 and guess what I didn't faint but I
  • 00:45:52
    need to lie down I'm not feeling well
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