{"id":128345,"date":"2020-07-21T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/?p=128345"},"modified":"2020-10-22T02:59:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T09:59:49","slug":"tq-napoleon-hill-great-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/tq-napoleon-hill-great-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoleon Hill on Great Guitar Playing Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Find more here<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Napoleon Hill<\/em><\/p>\n

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Most of us would love to play guitar better than we do. Faster, bigger pieces of music. More ease and expression in each note. Wider stretches with never a buzzed note. It all sounds marvelous.<\/p>\n

But when we sit down to\u00a0play<\/a>, we have only our current abilities – nothing more or less.<\/p>\n

And one of the challenges of practice is to do today what will lead us to higher abilities tomorrow. (Or more realistically, next month and year). This sounds straightforward, but it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

As humans, we bring our moods, energy-levels, and state of mind to our practices. And these can help or hinder.\u00a0Managing practice<\/a>\u00a0is largely managing our own attention.<\/p>\n

So how can we guarantee productive practices? How can we know that what we do today will lead us to better playing in the future? And how can we feel satisfied and enjoy our time on the guitar?<\/p>\n

One reliable way is to make quality our top priority.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t so much matter THAT we play our\u00a0scales<\/a>, but HOW we play our scales. Just a couple of minutes of clean, intentional movements, hearing each sound in real time. This is good practice. This will bring us forward more than an hour of mindless drills.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s the same with our music. It doesn\u2019t matter how difficult the piece is. What matters is the quality we bring to it.<\/p>\n

Can we stay focused? Can we place each finger in turn? Can we choose and demonstrate the\u00a0volume<\/a>\u00a0of each note?<\/p>\n

This is playing \u201con purpose.\u201d And what is the purpose? Mastery. Beauty. Creation.<\/p>\n

Beautiful playing isn\u2019t in the future, though we convince ourselves otherwise. It only happens one note at a time. First one, then the next, and again.<\/p>\n

From beginning levels to the most advanced, the method is the same: play each note with full attention and awareness, in the best way we know how.<\/p>\n

Over time the challenges increase, and our conceptions of possibility expand. But the method remains, working its magic in each focused moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Find more here. Enjoy! \u201cIf you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.\u201d Napoleon Hill Most of us would love to play guitar better than we do. Faster, bigger pieces of music. More ease and expression in each note. Wider … <\/p>\n

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