10 000 hours

So you need to do something for 10 000 hours to become a master at it? That's insane, that means if I play guitar for 2 hours everyday I still won't be a master in 10 years time. Wtf?

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Why do you think musicscholars rate jazz?

There's a dude that wrote a book about the 10000 hour myth. He wrote about naturals / prodigies / people with perfect bone structure and how they typically surpass the people attempting to practice their way to the top

play it everywhere in your bed play it while shitting while eating

this is why most classical/jazz/virtuoso musicians become famous in their 30s...

*blocks your path*

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>prodigies
you mean plants?

um, no. Prodigies, like my cousin, who could play piano and violin perfectly at 7 years old.

your cousin sounds like a faggot

9,986,000 minutes
that's like watching die hard
80,000 times

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do you think that rule works with something like songwriting and coming up with melodies

Then play 5 hours a day ya fuckin faget

to be blunt, fuck no

prodigies like me, who've been depressed since middle school

shut the fuck up you whiny little shit. if you want to be great at something then you put the necessary time in to git gud. you obviously lack the drive and dedication to be anything of note so don't bother

But you will be in 15 years time. Stop pretending to be retarded. Nobody is going to bow to a 30 year old out of respect for being a master of anything. Of course there is an element of it taking decades to become a master.

This literally only applies to the broadest fields. It doesn't take 10,000 hours to become good at making webcomics, but learning to draw probably does in the grand scheme of things.
Same thing with consolidated projects. It won't take 10,000 hours to become good at game design, but forming a team and combining all the manhours to make it happen, that easily adds up to possibly well over 10,000 hours.
With music, it most certainly takes well over 10,000 hours to understand and become a patrician

I like how the guy who came up with the 10000 hours idea used the beatles as a fucking example. None of those retards were masters of thier instrument, they just had good chemistry and song writing chops.

Tom Verlaine is a master of the guitar but he would play 12 hours a day sometimes more.

May be, but I can attest that it is a real phenomenon and not some schizo conspiracy

The key word is “master.” Assuming you took this incredibly serious and spent a full 10000 hours on guitar, by the time you were done, you’d be proficient in every style (rock, jazz, classical, etc.) you’d totally understand the theory behind it, you’d be able to play in non standard tunings with ease; you’d know the differences between all the different types, with an understanding of how different builds, wood types, and string types can affect the sound, and so on. You’d be a MASTER at guitar
However, you’d be pretty good long before the 10000 hours are up. I can’t think of a guitarist that started after the 10000 hours

its only 10k cause you spent a good 6,000 hours messing around being a goofball

>I still won't be a master in 10 years
Why do you think musicians complain about "getting paid in exposure" so much? It's a lot of fucking work.

not to mention Bill Gates. a dude who literally just programmed one BASIC compiler his whole life (which literally any CS major can do) then just took and resold other people's products and ideas to make his way to the top.

then do it in 1000 hours. do it today. don't feel hopeless, or worry about impossibilities or possibilities, just fucking do it.

>I still won't be a master in 10 years time
Oh, it's even worse than that: you'll literally never be a "master". Learning an instrument is a lifelong journey; it never ends.

How does that have anything to do with what I said?

do it you cunt

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>Goes to forums for advice
Too late bro

what dude