Jerryc41
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Unfortunately, I fall into this category.
Some of Us Can Relate to This
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Croaky Keith
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......after about 3 years of trying, I can now just about read & play music from the page with my harmonicas.....
.......things do take time, but usually it is worth the effort.
.......things do take time, but usually it is worth the effort.
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Jerryc41
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Failure and I are good friends. We've had a lot of fun together.
Every failure is another lesson learned.
JJFN
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"Try and try again. Then quit. No sense being a damn fool about it." I think this is attributed to WC Fields.
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Jerryc41
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Funny!........
My group is made up of about 50 regulars that meets twice a week, Monday afternoon and Thursday morning. Some come one day only, some come both days, as I do. It's very obvious to me that most only play their uke when we meet, never at home. I try to make it easy for them by recording each song at rehearsal and providing a web page with all the audio tracks, about 200. But most don't bother. The excuse given is they don't have time (but 99% are retired). I tell them that they shouldn't wait for a moment, they have to schedule it.
A few weeks ago before class, I was noodling on my bass uke (which I started playing only a few years ago) and a regular member comments that I'm really getting good, how come? I replied that I practice with my recordings almost everyday. She bowed her head sheepishly, walked away saying, "I don't, I guess that's why I don't get better."
I always like to quote the joke about a tourist in New York looking for Carnegie Hall, asking a passerby, "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" The reply is, "Practice, practice, practice."
This is Michael Kohan in Los Angeles, Beverly West near the Beverly Center
9 tenor cutaway ukes, 6 acoustic bass ukes, 12 solid body bass ukes, 14 mini electric bass guitars (Total: 41)
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A few weeks ago before class, I was noodling on my bass uke (which I started playing only a few years ago) and a regular member comments that I'm really getting good, how come? I replied that I practice with my recordings almost everyday. She bowed her head sheepishly, walked away saying, "I don't, I guess that's why I don't get better."
I always like to quote the joke about a tourist in New York looking for Carnegie Hall, asking a passerby, "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" The reply is, "Practice, practice, practice."
This is Michael Kohan in Los Angeles, Beverly West near the Beverly Center
9 tenor cutaway ukes, 6 acoustic bass ukes, 12 solid body bass ukes, 14 mini electric bass guitars (Total: 41)
• Donate to The Ukulele Kids Club, they provide ukuleles to children in hospital music therapy programs. www.theukc.org
• Member The CC Strummers: YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/CCStrummers/video, Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheCCStrummers