I was listening to an educational video by Victor Wooten recently. One of the things he said struck me - that when a student begins studying music with a teacher, the teacher rarely ever finds out why the student came in the first place.
It made me think. If I was able to study music with a teacher with the goal of acquiring the skill of playing an instrument, what would I say if I were asked, 'why did you come here in the first place?'
My honest answer would be 'to prove to myself that I have the capacity to learn this'. Not playing music for my family or friends or even myself. Not to communicate anything - I can no more imagine communicating something through music than I could through art. Not for pleasure; I can't imagine the act of playing music as a pleasure. But the idea that I'm somehow incapable of this form of human endeavor is at best disconcerting.
Is this wrong?
Submitted April 13, 2021 at 08:54PM by Genshed https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/mqephk/question_about_motivation/?utm_source=ifttt