Rock and Pop- What musical advice have you heard/recieved/given that seemed hard to understand/follow?

I've never received musical advice which I found hard to understand... perhaps how to read sheet music? Though I suppose that's not really advice.

BQ: It doesn't matter, every day's the same. At least the heat will wane.

BQ2: It can be anywhere from a 1 to a 10, depending on the film. Some soar to greater heights with wonderful music in accompaniment, and for others the subject matter is served better when the music is subdued.

The most unlikely and hardest to follow advice I ever received was also some of the best and most effective: When playing live, don't over-think it and don't obsess over technical perfection. Once you're on the stage, practise time is over and now it's time to just perform.

That advice is unlikely because practising is done because practise makes perfect, and everyone knows that. But everyone also knows that there has never been a perfect performance in all of history. So if you focus too hard on making it perfect, you're not only more likely to screw up but you're also guaranteed to give an uninspired performance. But it goes against the practise-makes-perfect mantra of practising.

It really is valuable advice though. People remember the whole performance, not those two or three (or twenty) little mistakes. But if you focus on those mistakes, there goes the whole performance. Even if you didn't make any mistakes, you killed the performance by putting all the focus on stuff that doesn't really matter. Too much perfection is boring, which is why symphony orchestras don't produce cheering crowds when they play.

BQ: Hell no. Summer is always over much too quickly.

BQ2: More like vital than important. No movie can ever be an epic if it has a cheesy soundtrack. I don't normally do 1-10 scales, but probably a nine.

When I first started marching band years ago it was incredibly hard for me to grasp the concept of marching heel - toe. I've had this really odd natural tendency to walk on my toes my whole life for some reason.

BQ: I go back the end of September. We get out late in June so we start late. Also I'm still taking a class now, so technically I never left.

BQ2: Depends on the movie. If it's not a movie/series/genre known for the music I'd say a 5 or a 6. In something like the Blues Brothers or Grease it's a 10.

I'd have to agree with the "listening to songs all the way through" thing.

People also told me as a guitarist (when I was starting out) to "just improv," and I didn't know how. I was so inexperienced that I just played the same chords over and over xP

BQ: I am so ready. Summer is fun but it's boring as F**K, and I want to get back into my routine. Plus I'm taking BIT classes this fall ^.^

BQ2: 5. I don't care unless it doesn't fit the movie at all.

a million. I grew up listening to the oldies station that my mom continuously had on it the vehicle So at an early age: soul, motown, doo-wop, bubble gum rock, British invasion. 2. It grow to be also the 80s and that i loved: pop music from that factor, some rap. 3. Then the 90s got here and that i grow to be all about them: grunge, rock, rap, some metallic. 4. Then the later 90s got here and that i branched out into the second one 0.5 of the 60s, the 70s, each and each and every of the classic rock stuff. I also regarded deeper into soul and R&B from the 60s and 70s. Early 90s rap which sampled 70s funk were given me into funk. I were given into ska and reggae round this similar time. 5. The early 2000s got here and that i actually dropped out of contemporary music altogether, rock, rap, pop, i theory all of it grow to be sucky. So I merely delved deeper into the 60s-80s and metallic. 6. Then the later 2000s got here and that i nonetheless theory maximum stuff sucked yet then I got here right here and all started truly searching into the overdue 70s early 80s time body besides as blues (which I loved this time after an before attempt contained in the early 2000s that were given me nowhere). someplace in there I were given into lifeless Kennedys and then early 80s punk. i'm questioning 1998 or so.

"Learning to play another instrument will help you get better with your preferred instrument". Kind of a long the same lines as the advice you've been given. Hard to understand at first, but as you progress you see how true it is.

BQ: Summer is 365 days a year for me

BQ2: 10, unless its the movie castaway

aaaaah, a non-dramarama question for a change!

I heard it...i received it after a while....and now i'll give it. Just like you said, give EVERYTHING a shot and open your mind. You don't have to LIKE it, but at least give it a chance. The flip side of that coin is willful ignorance.

BA- god yes, i HATE summer.

BA2- 10. A sh!t soundtrack can completely ruin the nuance and atmosphere of an integral scene.

That Alt Rock isn't crap

BQ: NOOOOOOOOOO, I love school but I love summer :/

BQ2: 10, its boring without it