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Originally Posted by matthew-s
This is a key reason why I'm trying to pick up the guitar now. I figure if you don't keep trying to learn new things, then you start getting old - on a number of levels.
Time will tell, eh?
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I've picked up bass-playing again, after putting it down for 30 years. I hafta say.....re-learning the patterns and scales and patterns-over-patterns and what sounds good in what songs and how to wander off the root notes but remembering to return to them at the right moment and etc., etc. has been very brain-taxing. I have always been a fan of music programs NOT getting their budgets cut and now I can see first hand the excruciating mental calisthenics that music demands of musicians. Play music. It will make your brain hurt.