1. Welcome feedback
Those that listen
to you sing or play will be listening from another perspective and may
be hearing something different to what you hear. In fact, they might
hear something you're not hearing at all. They may make suggestions in
order to aid the context you're working in. It's important to welcome
feedback, both for the bigger picture and to keep you learning and
gaining experience personally. Besides, it might just be an awesome
idea!
2. Maintain a teachable heart
It is important to remain
teachable. No one ever finishes learning in their lifetime. You can
always glean something from another person, even if it's a lesson in
attitude.
3. Surround yourself with people that have more experience
There are many people I look up to - both near and far. It's a pretty
simple thought, but it's great to have that uncontrollable laughter when
you see your favourite player or singer play something awesome - you
learn things, especially when you have a close friendship with them.
4. Worship
When you worship with your gift from a genuine
heart, it impacts those around you and helps you lead. You may not even
realise it at the time, but when you hand over your gift to the one
that gave it to you, it opens a door for people to have a greater
encounter with God!
5. Practice!
Yes, that's right, ladies and gentlemen. Not
everyone loves this word with gleeful passion, but there are always
ways to make practice fun. How about bringing a friend along or learning
a piece of music with someone? When others aren't accessible, I like to
grab ahold of a good quality play-along album of an artist I love,
throw it in the iPod and play to it. The benefit of most play-along
tracks is that you have three things - the click reference, a chart to
read and the feeling of playing with real musicians. In turn, this helps
with timing, reading music and feel/ groove. The play-alongs can be
found at most music shops.
6. Find new ways of getting excited about your instrument
As mentioned previously, there are always ways to make your discipline
exciting and not just something that you do for work or service. Find
new ways to keep yourself passionate about your instrument. Be creative!
7. Read and listen
When listening to your favourite
music, reading it (or about it) helps you understand how it was created
and how it was written.
8. Find your voice
Once you've seen or heard how things
are written or produced, try the same or similar things, and see if you
can get the same or similar results. You may even find something that
you love more! This helps develop your own musical voice, because you
start to pick the aesthetic characteristics in the music you listen to
that suit your personality - characteristics that suit you.
9. Get first-hand experience
Start playing! Organize some jams with the people you love. It develops confidence, along with feel/ groove and unity.
10. Be generous
It's important that we always fill
ourselves up, but also that we pour ourselves back out. Be generous with
your gift and your service! God works generationally, not just within
the small frame of your life span. Those that you give back to inherit
what you learnt/ experienced, allowing God to work through more and more
people.
- Harrison Wood
- Reference Source
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