Distractions
Mon, 06/16/2025 - 10:33
I'm curious to see how many of you get distracted by all the Lesson content online, vs. staying focused on the learning modules on this site? This site is incredible and offers a lifetime of learning in a very systematic way, but I get stalled.
I will see a you tube lesson on something lick or riff or style...and bam! I'll get my attention swayed? I'll see an Irish Harmonica lesson and BAM, pulled away and lose focus. So what ultimately happens is that with the little practice time I have, I misuse it and keep dabbling on other things. And ultimately get no better at any of them!
How about you? Thanks.
Peter757:
I hear ya' brother!
I keep repeating the mantra "Do less; do it better." Which helps. About 10% of the time. Just about the only thing that helps me focus is when I have some sort of public performance of a specific song coming up, or am working on an element in the Levels of Achievement series. But even then, David (or someone else) can post something like, "Here's a new artist study of such-and-such song recorded by so-and-so," and I'm speeding down the onramp and onto Distraction Avenue.
OK. Gotta' stop being distracted by the Forum, and go practice.
(Oh yeah, and re Irish: Do NOT under any circumtances look at Tony Eyers' on-line lessons on using tremolo hamonica for Celtic tunes. A rabbit hole I'll never be able to climb out of, now that I've purchased tremolos in G, C, A and D, just 'cause of that darn Tony.)