Monday, October 03, 2005

Musical Ability: a blessing or a curse

I discovered I liked singing at a very early age, then I was made to take piano lessons which became a chore, so I stopped. A couple of years after, I picked up a guitar, taught myself, and it soon became an obsession. I specialised in 12 string guitar for quite a long time, and then developed a 6 string fingerpicking style which transferred back to the flatpicking. But it’s more about the songs really, than just the guitar technique. It’s opened doors for me but also caused pain. The curse of having a musical capability is that if you try to make a living out of it, much of the joy can get squeezed out of it, but if you don’t then you have to put up with a day job that isn’t really what you’d rather be doing.

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