Guitar Players...Learn About The Point Of Discipline.

Written by Craig Bassett


Have you ever started learning a lick or exercise and stopped practicing it before you had mastered it? Now I don't know you, but my guessrepparttar answer torepparttar 115944 question is yes! Why is that? Why did you stop, when it was something that you REALLY wanted to learn?

There are quite a few reasons for it, butrepparttar 115945 one I would like to mention now is what I callrepparttar 115946 "point of discipline". This isrepparttar 115947 point whenrepparttar 115948 initial enthusiasm of learning that new lick/exercise wears off. It is no longer so new and exciting. This isrepparttar 115949 time when you will have to use your self-discipline to completerepparttar 115950 task at hand.

A lot of guitar players will tell you at this point…"Hey man, guitar's supposed to be all about fun! If I have to use my self-discipline, I'll no longer enjoy it." If anyone says that to you, have a look at their playing. Most ofrepparttar 115951 time they are not very good :)They have not reached a virtuoso level of playing, so why listen to them!

The point of discipline is when most guitar players quit. Rather than using their self-discipline to TRULY masterrepparttar 115952 lick/exercise, they stop practicing it and move onto something new. It's tempting isn't it? We've ALL done this at some point in our development as a guitarist. But what'srepparttar 115953 cost of doing this?

Some ofrepparttar 115954 negative consequences of quitting atrepparttar 115955 point of discipline include:

1.You'll never reachrepparttar 115956 virtuoso levels of guitar playing. Can you imagine virtuosos like Yngwie Malmsteen, Rusty Cooley, Michael Angelo etc, quitting before they have mastered what they are working on? I don't think so! They didn't become so incredible by being quitters. They have learned to tap into their self-discipline.

The Easy Way to Make a Special Present

Written by Catherine Calder


We all know someone who is difficult to buy a present for. Someone who has everything they need and would not appreciate ‘normal’ gifts. Often this will be your parent or an older relative or neighbor, and they can be a problem to buy something for.

Well, this is a simple way to make a unique gift that they will be happy to accept. When you takerepparttar time to produce something that relates only to them and their interests it will always be happily received.

The idea is to make a picture that includes something that they are especially interested in. This could be a hobby or any other interest they have.

This is a quick and easy technique. You simply choose your theme (their hobby or interest), paint a silhouette of it onto a colored background and frame it.

You could paint a colored background onto a canvas panel or use already colored paper. I noticed my local art store had colored card that had a range of colors merging into each other, this would be ideal for this technique.

The theme of your silhouette is reallyrepparttar 115943 creative part. The easiest thing would be to use their hobby asrepparttar 115944 theme.

Look through some copyright free clip art until you find an image that you could use forrepparttar 115945 outline ofrepparttar 115946 silhouette.

If they like fishing it could be a fisherman/fish/fishing fly. For a golfer it could be a set of clubs/golf hole with flag. For someone who likes to cook it could be related to cooking. If they are keen church-goers a silhouette of their church may be appreciated.

A lot of people like to receive a silhouette of their home. For car enthusiast a silhouette of their car is a good idea. In which case you could use a digital camera and take a picture of their church, home or whatever you have decided to include inrepparttar 115947 picture.

You really can use your imagination for this. When using clip art you have a huge range of options (probably too many!) to choose from. You don’t have to be great at drawing!

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