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Career Development and Playing the Banjo
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Article Overview: Three years ago I started taking banjo lessons. Don’t ask me why. I guess the idea of being totally unfashionable just appealed to me. I didn’t know what I was getting myself in for! My teacher just happened to be a former world champion banjo player, and although I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I played guitar pretty well, he soon cut me down to size.
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Career Development and Playing the Banjo
Three years ago I started taking banjo lessons. Don’t ask me why. I
guess the idea of being totally unfashionable just appealed to me. I
didn’t know what I was getting myself in for! My teacher just happened
to be a former world champion banjo player, and although I thought I was
pretty hot stuff because I played guitar pretty well, he soon cut me
down to size.
And so it began. Three-months of re-learning the basics of music
theory. Six-months just practicing my right hand picking, a further
year working on six tunes over and over again, and another year
expanding my repertoire to fifteen tunes.
Now, I am not interested in establishing a career as a professional
banjoist but I was interested in my teacher’s perspective on career
development in the arts given his 50+ years successful career as a
performer and a teacher (the guy knows Bob Dylan!).
When I asked him for his advice for establishing a successful career
he said “ask five questions”:
- Does it make you happy?
- Do you have the aptitude to succeed in this field of endeavor?
- Can you focus your energies sufficiently to practice and practice again?
- Can you connect personally with people in this field?
- Do you have the perseverance to overcome obstacles you will meet?
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