One of the most frustrating challenges for me throughout 15 years of classical music training- practice, and performance, is rhythm. It comes so natural to most people, I mean everyone has a heartbeat, right? Sometimes, I wonder if there's something wrong with mine.
I've learned to adapt (& fake-it in some cases) playing classical music; one of the beautiful things about reading sheet music is that it's all quite mathematical, luckily for me most of what we play in addition to being mathematical is uniform.
Ok, I am straying off topic, my real qualm is that I wish I could play guitar, when I hear a song I can look up the chords, form the chords with my left hand but my strumming sucks. I throw myself off with my own strumming, getting lost in the measures. This is what goes on in my head, "are they accenting the 'and' of 3 or 4, or the one and three, wait, where's the one?"
Honestly, I've been trying to figure out what the hell my problem is. One theory is that I don't know the songs I'm trying to play well enough, but I can't even play my favorite songs- I just don't have that innate ability, I guess. This irritates me beyond belief because I can hear the music the down beats, the up beats, the bass of the chords but it doesn't translate into my two hands, my right hand especially, there's some sort of road block, not even a speed bump it's more like a wall- from my ears to my hands there is no connection and it frustrates me to no end.
I think I'd have a much better chance of accomplishing what I want if I wrote out the entire song, but I mean I'd have to breakdown EVERY LITTLE THING, up strum, down strum, down beat, up beat, picked/individual notes, rests, words and by words I mean each syllable and basically the melodic line, & chords. Seems totally unfair that most musicians can hear a song, get the chords, and BAM instant cover of a song.
Jazz...forget it.
I'm trying to learn this song, and I might want it bad enough to write out every note...<3
