I would like you to begin your practice with understanding that the question of how long this will take in your case cannot be answered by anyone for you, when you buy your first PRS guitar. Your situation reminds me the Chinese story of a foal once needing to measure the depth of a stream. Asked first, Aunt Squirrel replied that the stream was deep because it had swallowed some of her kin. After her, Uncle Bull replied the stream was shallow because he barely got water over his knee whenever he crossed it. After finding a stick and measuring himself against it, the foal uses the same stick to measure Aunt Squirrel and Uncle Bull and the answer can be approximated thus.
There are people born with total hearing and a rare inner inclination towards music who play many instruments and who don’t want to become musicians. I have met such a person, and he was an accomplished and well-respected village teacher, who could decipher complicated musical notes with uncanny ease without being specifically taught to do so.
Another situation that I know of is an experiment performed by a singing teacher upon a grown-up who had no musical hearing. Thrice a week for several months, this person would perform several basic level drills, which in the beginning he did by producing mostly random sounds. Nevertheless, the gap between his capacity to produce and to assess sounds has undoubtedly diminished in two months’ time.
Just like most of the great performers, including your favorites, you must be somewhere in between these extreme cases and you had better not count the years it will take you to practice. That is if you really like music, enjoying your practice in a large formula is a better way. Don’t skip any concert where your favorite band plays and don’t go there without your friends. Keep a curious eye on your idols. Consider this as being your extended practice. Criteria like “I want to play this or that song” will give way to larger and more technical ones if you love every moment that you spend with a guitar in your hands.
If you can live without the daily practice of your instrument, than this is what you have to do. I am not advising you to take it easy; quite the opposite. But you cannot fake your love for the instrument you want to play and it is this love that directly expresses in your routine practice. This directness of musical practice in this respect is one of the hardships connected with playing an instrument. Whatever you do without faith and enthusiasm will not really be of use to you. Routine practice, far from being the reversed measure of your talent, is like the found stick in my story, the most accurate personal instrument to measure the depth of this bond.
Practice involves several other forms besides individual practice as your daily routine. Peers who are more advanced than you are will teach you many things if you don’t have a teacher, and so will playing in one or more bands and accepting public performances as soon as there is opportunity for that. Your hearing and your understanding will change miraculously on the way with your music pals and your instruments of choice changing along. The only witness to your evolution would be the good old shop where your quality PRS guitar, amplifiers and guitar effects pedals all keep coming from.To begin, here is the simple ways for beginners.
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