Instrument Training Quotes

Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers.

You've got to learn your instrument.

My father started me out on the flute and I began going to teachers.

Kids draw masterpieces - they're the best painters ever. I think the same with music. They could totally write amazing music if they just had the right tools. It's important at that age to set up something, and then maybe afterwards you can go study your violin for 500 hours a week. But at least in the beginning you know about the options.

When I first started playing guitar, I would sit in my room for hours and learn scales.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

What I do is I get the sheet music and I put it out for myself and then I use a visual tuner to go through each note individually. And every time I make a mistake, I start the song over again, so I use the muscle memory of intervals and then watching that tuner, and then a lot of repetition.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.