[It's the wonders of being allowed to choose to do something just because, or for absolutely silly reasons!
Trish knows his relationship with music is incredibly fraught under the surface in a way she's only glimpsed and therefore can't completely fathom, and it must be similarly unfathomable for him to read this justification.]
They weren't really provocations, but you're welcome.
Something I want you to understand is that I picked up guitar when I was six years old. My perception of the guitar was by virtue of that very shallow. I wanted to play it because it was cool-looking, and the basic image of music to me was "person doing guitar solos". However. it can be very frustrating for a child to work through getting that level of dexterity and the like. Indeed, I got very frustrated. But as we just discussed, I'm equally stubborn, and continued despite the fact it was hard.
It was actually my mother's idea to try bass. She wasn't a musician, but she knew what music I liked, and realized there was a guitar out there that was seemingly simpler in scope. Obviously not true, but she suggested it all the same, and it turned out I loved it. But I was also eight then, had a much better idea of what I was doing, and tried it out with experience behind me.
That was a lot of background, but I do want to emphasize that it wasn't something I decided through brilliance or hearty deliberation. Almost by happenstance I found I enjoyed bass's sound much more, and became fascinated by the techniques I could use. My taste had become more sophisticated as I got older as well, so I was enraptured by the sheer technique of skilled musicians now that I better understood what they were doing. Watching live performances on television also helped with that.
Overall, for you, you're already a skilled musician of another sort of instrument, but I think it will still inform what you ultimately choose. The breadth of sound in piano can also be found in a basic guitar, for example. But if you're tired of that and craving something almost entirely new, I can just as easily see you choosing bass.
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Trish knows his relationship with music is incredibly fraught under the surface in a way she's only glimpsed and therefore can't completely fathom, and it must be similarly unfathomable for him to read this justification.]
They weren't really provocations, but you're welcome.
Something I want you to understand is that I picked up guitar when I was six years old. My perception of the guitar was by virtue of that very shallow. I wanted to play it because it was cool-looking, and the basic image of music to me was "person doing guitar solos". However. it can be very frustrating for a child to work through getting that level of dexterity and the like. Indeed, I got very frustrated. But as we just discussed, I'm equally stubborn, and continued despite the fact it was hard.
It was actually my mother's idea to try bass. She wasn't a musician, but she knew what music I liked, and realized there was a guitar out there that was seemingly simpler in scope. Obviously not true, but she suggested it all the same, and it turned out I loved it. But I was also eight then, had a much better idea of what I was doing, and tried it out with experience behind me.
That was a lot of background, but I do want to emphasize that it wasn't something I decided through brilliance or hearty deliberation. Almost by happenstance I found I enjoyed bass's sound much more, and became fascinated by the techniques I could use. My taste had become more sophisticated as I got older as well, so I was enraptured by the sheer technique of skilled musicians now that I better understood what they were doing. Watching live performances on television also helped with that.
Overall, for you, you're already a skilled musician of another sort of instrument, but I think it will still inform what you ultimately choose. The breadth of sound in piano can also be found in a basic guitar, for example. But if you're tired of that and craving something almost entirely new, I can just as easily see you choosing bass.