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Originally Posted by BlueSkyJaunte
I find it all hard. I'll be the first to admit that I don't put in anywhere near enough time practicing. I also HATE "exercises" and avoid them like the plague. I'm also short-attention-span theater about what I want to learn to play at any time. Add this up and I still have grade-school level skills after playing for 25 years.
Sometimes I wonder if "talented" is just another word for "obsessive practicer".
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Amen. 10% talent, 90% work. It is all hard, but making progress - whatever that may mean to you or me, is immensely rewarding. Its soul food. The exercises are only a means to an end, except there really is no end.....