Post by : felipe  
  Date : July 2004  
  Subject : Personal  
  Title : please help!....am i crazy or just passion?  
         
  QUESTION:  
 
hi marty, you are an inspiration for me. I've been playing guitar since i was 13, now i am 16. I've been learning by myself, teachers, books, and whatever else i can to learn more. The music is my passion, i live for it, since i was a baby (my mother tolds me things). When i am in school or other places where i don't have a guitar, i concentrate and visualize the guitar in my mind, i move my fingers and play as if i had a guitar, many people think i am crazy, i know i am not. I just want to play guitar all day, and play my music, i practice playing and exploring different kinds of music. I have been evolving as a musician, i've played hendrix, satriani, becker, wes. My goal is to create my own style, and not to play what someone else is playing.
Am i crazy for staring at a window or at the floor and concentrating in playing guitar in my mind, while moving my fingers. I love to take a sheet of music to school and read it in my mind, then go home and play it all memorized. I also compose, i love to do orchestrated works, with counterpoint, i usually compose for violins, cellos, violas, piano, i love classical music. I haven't studied a lot of music composition, but i know some things, i like to use my perception, "6th sense"?. Almost everyday i hear a full orchestra playing music in my mind, and i like to write it down, getting cool ideas.
So, after getting to know me, am i sort o f crazy, does this happen to u?

P.S.: i am sure one day i will meet u, and definitely jam with u.
Beautiful music

felipe a. ruiz
 
     
  MARTY'S ANSWER:  
 
I`m not sure what your question is but my advice to you is record yourself AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. That is the only way to analyze your playing and become original. Good luck.
 
     
 
 
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