A little bit over a year ago I bought a fender jazz bass. It’s a really nice bass but I’m thinking that it’s about time that I just give up on it and call it quits. I really hate to sound like a quitter but I just don’t think it’s something that’s for me. Over the past year, I’ve made next to no progress at all and I don’t enjoy spending time with it. Practicing feels like much more a chore to me than anything else and it feels way too tedious and boring to get into. There are times every once in a GREAT while where I do get into into it but that’s very rare. I just don’t have any fun at all when I try to play it and it’s very hard for me to sit still and focus whenever I do pick it up and it’s caused a lot of anger and frustration for me. It’s even been causing me to feel pretty depressed here lately because I just can’t get into no matter how hard I try and I’m very disappointed in myself because of it (and yes, I know that is 100% my fault that I haven’t progressed). What do you guys think? Are there any tricks or techniques or anything like that I could try out to make it more enjoyable or is playing an instrument just simply not for me? The thought of calling it quits, giving up on it and selling it really breaks my heart and makes me want to cry, but idk if I’ll ever be able to make it work out for me. You can force yourself to do things that you don’t feel like doing, but you can’t force yourself to enjoy those things
Submitted March 06, 2019 at 02:05PM by funfunfun2233 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/ay14gf/for_about_a_few_months_now_ive_been_debating_as/?utm_source=ifttt