From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018051309552157496-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > my - not so serious - musician buddies .......   
      
   > they're not evil. or failures, or bad people, they're just hobbiests or   
   > something.  just in in for the fun, not serious musicians.   
      
   THAT's what they are, NOT SERIOUS musicians! And THAT's the problem!   
      
   > And that's the thing. I am.  The mismatch is on my part, in thinking they   
   > should care as much as I do.   
      
   They should! This is about if you Love something, like Music, and Show it by   
   Enthusiastically putting in all the Effort Required!   
   They aren't interested in much effort, if any, which Clearly Indicates that   
   they DON'T really Love Music all that much!!!   
      
   > They don't.  At least they aren't in the slightest interesting in putting   
   > in the real work it takes to " make it look easy ", like the pros.   
      
   They MUST LOVE it enough to put in that effort!!!   
      
   > Who knows, maybe somewhere once there was some savant, extremely talented   
   > person who could just knew how to play everything just from being born.   
   > But I never met anyone like that.  Most people have to learn to do things.   
      
   I've never known of anyone like that either...it's called Talent because it   
   must be Earned!   
   The Talent was an ancient unit of filthy lucre, and according to at least   
   one pastor I heard, it amounted to an entire year's wages, meaning LOTS of   
   work to get!!!   
      
   > So.   
      
   > Learning to play a little, enough to do easy 4/4 rock tunes with two   
   > chords, is doable with minimal effort.  And that's cool.   
      
   Nah, it's Dumbed-Down! Or maybe that's LAZY'd-Down! Same thing ;)   
      
   > Buy a guitar, learn Mony Mony, or whatever the super easy cool songs of   
   > today are of today. MM comes to mind because that was one of the easy   
   > songs a beginner of my generation learned.  Don't know what it takes to   
   > play a Taylor Swift song :-)   
      
   I cover only ONE Taylor Swift song, "I Knew You Were Trouble", and that's   
   it!   
      
   > So.    Live and let live.   
      
   More like live and let SUCK!   
      
   > I need to find my own level, people I enjoy working with. Quit being upset   
   > that some of the ones I know now don't aspire to actual musicianship.   
   > Actually, they don't even recognize real musicianship.   
      
   Too bad we're such a distance apart - I'm a fanatic for being Serious about   
   Music.   
      
   > Kinda funny.   
      
   Jim   
      
   The way things are, it's kind of Tragic!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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