Re: Are you a Perfectionist?
I'm still learning the basics, so perfection is some distance away yet. However, when I'm learning songs to cover, I have to get them right. It really bugs me when I'm missing out a bit of a fill or even just a single hit here are there.
The upside of this is that it pushes me to learn new things and expand my abbility. The downside is that when I realise that a particular part is a long way beyond my current abbility (e.g. the chorus in Sweet Emotion which I was trying to learn recently), I tend to give up and go to something else rather than accept a simpler version to play.
Sometimes I do accept a compromise though. The first song I learnt was Gimmie all your Lovin' and there are two snare hits in there that I still can't get and I have to play on the beat rather than between as Frank does. Not often though. I'm doing the same with that chorus in Sweet Emotion, playing the kick with the ride groove rather than opposed to it. This works, but sounds wrong, and bugs me every time I play it. :/
You know the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common:
they don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views,
which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
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