You''ll Never Be a Good Musician Until You Embrace This

Let's start with two realities, two bits of truth.

Truth number one, learning music is not easy.

We can know that because learning music, the idea of playing music is a lot of fun.

And if learning music were easy, if it were easy to learn it well, then everybody would do it.

Or a lot more people would actually do it than currently do it.

And related to that is truth number two, Learning music might not be easy, but learning music well is even harder.

And it's important that you understand these two statements and that you embrace this before we go on, because it probably answers just about every bit of anxiety that you've ever had about why am I not getting better? I keep spending this time and practicing.

Well, let's address these two things.

Learning music is not easy.

And learning music well is even harder.

So it's perfectly natural for you to feel like something's missing, like you should be doing something for it to feel easier.

But you have to first understand, in spite of all the things that we can do to have practice be effective, there isn't much that we can do to make it easier.

Now, for some of you, I need to tell you about the talent trap.