Technique, Come to Me! (please?)
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creativitycauldron~Ahoy brothers and sisters of the cauldron! It is I, Chris Kobold; bard of note!~
I hope this day finds you happy as can be. If not, I hope tomorrow finds you even better! Before I dive into my ramblings, I want to let you know that your happiness is worth every possible step you can take towards it. Your vision of a perfect life is achievable, and I so ardently believe in you. You've got this!
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I've been hard at work ironing out some technical stuff with my chosen instruments (guitar and bodhran, mostly) before I decide I'm comfortable enough to record some things I've been meaning to record. It's been a crazy slow process trying to nail the technique of just not missing my drum while playing. This has hurt the confidence I have in my overall sound, so I feel it's important to put my thoughts on the matter out there in case any of my kindred creative souls have the same issue!
Anxiety, right? It sucks for all of us when it rears its ugly head. It's gotta suck especially for those of us who self-teach due to a lack of resources. After all, we don't have the comparison to draw with a teacher or peers while we hopefully learn the right things in the right order. We envy the folk on the internet or in the city square who make it look so easy. Well, I certainly do, at least! I want to be as good as they are—to create beautiful things like they do without the immense struggle I have to go through. Heck, I can barely strum and sing at the same time as it is!
Sure it takes time, but I have terrible patience! Lots of online resources seem to think that there are shortcuts to technique, but there are dreadfully few that I've found. Muscle memory is a hard thing to force—nigh impossible, I think. I just have to be better than I am now, all the time.
I think this train of thought has a lot to do with judging myself harshly. True, there's always room to improve as an artist, but I'm doing myself a serious disservice if I put my ideas on hold for when I feel as though I'm adequate enough to do them justice. If I'm not good enough for my ideas, then how will I ever be good enough? The answer, as I'm sure you can agree with, is that I need to just make the thing.
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That's all for now, my dear fellow creatives of the Cauldron. What are your thoughts on technique anxiety and such? I'd love to hear!
Until next time, keep your chins high and your heads in the clouds! You are shiny! :D
With warmest regards (and magic too),
~Chris Kobold
I hope this day finds you happy as can be. If not, I hope tomorrow finds you even better! Before I dive into my ramblings, I want to let you know that your happiness is worth every possible step you can take towards it. Your vision of a perfect life is achievable, and I so ardently believe in you. You've got this!
~~~~~
I've been hard at work ironing out some technical stuff with my chosen instruments (guitar and bodhran, mostly) before I decide I'm comfortable enough to record some things I've been meaning to record. It's been a crazy slow process trying to nail the technique of just not missing my drum while playing. This has hurt the confidence I have in my overall sound, so I feel it's important to put my thoughts on the matter out there in case any of my kindred creative souls have the same issue!
Anxiety, right? It sucks for all of us when it rears its ugly head. It's gotta suck especially for those of us who self-teach due to a lack of resources. After all, we don't have the comparison to draw with a teacher or peers while we hopefully learn the right things in the right order. We envy the folk on the internet or in the city square who make it look so easy. Well, I certainly do, at least! I want to be as good as they are—to create beautiful things like they do without the immense struggle I have to go through. Heck, I can barely strum and sing at the same time as it is!
Sure it takes time, but I have terrible patience! Lots of online resources seem to think that there are shortcuts to technique, but there are dreadfully few that I've found. Muscle memory is a hard thing to force—nigh impossible, I think. I just have to be better than I am now, all the time.
I think this train of thought has a lot to do with judging myself harshly. True, there's always room to improve as an artist, but I'm doing myself a serious disservice if I put my ideas on hold for when I feel as though I'm adequate enough to do them justice. If I'm not good enough for my ideas, then how will I ever be good enough? The answer, as I'm sure you can agree with, is that I need to just make the thing.
~~~~~
That's all for now, my dear fellow creatives of the Cauldron. What are your thoughts on technique anxiety and such? I'd love to hear!
Until next time, keep your chins high and your heads in the clouds! You are shiny! :D
With warmest regards (and magic too),
~Chris Kobold
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Date: 2019-08-05 01:05 am (UTC)Patience is sooo tough, and in regards to technique anxiety - I just experienced this the other week. I've been seeing some artists do amazing stuff with a type of paint called AcrylaGouache, which is some acrylic / gouache hybrid. My instant thought was to get some of it and start trying to learn it.
Which is all well and good, but I think its a tendency to think "Maybe THIS is what I'm missing that will take my work to the next level." And we all know that the joke is, there really isn't some outside thing that will swoop in and make our work better. Its all inside us already, but just takes time.