Are any of you all pursuing multiple instruments and hobbies? Just wondering if I'm tackling too much playing guitar,practicing becoming a concept artist, and plan to start playing piano? I have "natural talent" in art, and would like to make a living as a concept artist. With guitar, I've been playing for two years, and I'm advancing fairly quickly. I have always been interested in piano, and might start that. My point, in your opinion, is it too much? I should mention I do these things seeking more than rudimentary skill. Do you all have several passions you take on at once?
Yeah learning both would be cool. But this reminds me of another thing, I've always thought about what good would it do if I invest hours into these things only to do nothing with it. What's the purpose if I only stay a "bedroom guitarist" or musician. But regardless, I'll still do it.
Yeah learning both would be cool. But this reminds me of another thing, I've always thought about what good would it do if I invest hours into these things only to do nothing with it. What's the purpose if I only stay a "bedroom guitarist" or musician. But regardless, I'll still do it.r-teest
[QUOTE="r-teest"]Yeah learning both would be cool. But this reminds me of another thing, I've always thought about what good would it do if I invest hours into these things only to do nothing with it. What's the purpose if I only stay a "bedroom guitarist" or musician. But regardless, I'll still do it.KiIIyou
What else you gonna be doing if you din't? That's one of the things that keeps me going. If I didn't practice my hobbies and such, prob not much of that time would be well spent anyway.
I can play every woodwind instrument, mainly the alto sax, and I can drive anything that has wheels and an engine regardless of transmission, size or weight.
Yeah, I practice martial arts and I study philosophy. I'm not bad at either. I would really like get into competitive gaming because I think I can win.
Yeah learning both would be cool. But this reminds me of another thing, I've always thought about what good would it do if I invest hours into these things only to do nothing with it. What's the purpose if I only stay a "bedroom guitarist" or musician. But regardless, I'll still do it.r-teest
Well, your enjoyment. You probably started doing these things because you wanted to, and you continued doing it because you enjoy it. Not everything you do has to result in something grand. Video games don't really do much for peoples lives, but they bring enjoyment. That's all that matters.
Another hobby of mine is working out. I also play chess from time to time as well as video games. I started collecting video games again. I'm going to keep all of my purchases from now on and have a library of games with an elevator. Besides that, I like to debate.
Are any of you all pursuing multiple instruments and hobbies? Just wondering if I'm tackling too much playing guitar,practicing becoming a concept artist, and plan to start playing piano? I have "natural talent" in art, and would like to make a living as a concept artist. With guitar, I've been playing for two years, and I'm advancing fairly quickly. I have always been interested in piano, and might start that. My point, in your opinion, is it too much? I should mention I do these things seeking more than rudimentary skill. Do you all have several passions you take on at once?r-teest
I don't think you're tackling too much. It would be different if you had never played an instrument and were trying to tackle piano and guitar at the same time.
If you're advancing fairly quickly, I think you've proven that you can learn an instrument, so you should be able to pick up piano as well.
I would personally focus on one until I was brilliant at it, but that's just me.
I can play the piano, tried to teach myself guitar, but gave up on it. I paint Warhammer 40k miniatures, and I think that's about it for talent related hobbies, unless you consider being able to read an 800 page book in a day, when I'm motivated enough, a talent, 'cause reading is definitely a hobby.
Part of why I take on art primarily is because art is seen as boring and no one appreciates it. My friends and family are like that too. By doing concept art, I can further inspire people and make people say "I'd like to learn that" like people do guitar. I always hear "art is boring, or pointless, etc".
Practicing up on instruments like the Piano or Guitar seems to interest me, but I never get around to it. One good hobby that I know I'm pretty talented at is being an Artist, or drawing.
Are any of you all pursuing multiple instruments and hobbies? Just wondering if I'm tackling too much playing guitar,practicing becoming a concept artist, and plan to start playing piano? I have "natural talent" in art, and would like to make a living as a concept artist. With guitar, I've been playing for two years, and I'm advancing fairly quickly. I have always been interested in piano, and might start that. My point, in your opinion, is it too much? I should mention I do these things seeking more than rudimentary skill. Do you all have several passions you take on at once?r-teest
Wow, you sound a lot like me. I worry over the exact same thing. That my brain can't possible be good to a professional standard at both music and art, my two hobbies that I'd say I'm fairly skilled at and would like to expand upon. So you're definitely not alone on that one.
[QUOTE="r-teest"]Are any of you all pursuing multiple instruments and hobbies? Just wondering if I'm tackling too much playing guitar,practicing becoming a concept artist, and plan to start playing piano? I have "natural talent" in art, and would like to make a living as a concept artist. With guitar, I've been playing for two years, and I'm advancing fairly quickly. I have always been interested in piano, and might start that. My point, in your opinion, is it too much? I should mention I do these things seeking more than rudimentary skill. Do you all have several passions you take on at once? Eh...it just depends on whether or not you personally feel that one or more things are hurting the others. Personally, I feel like it's great to be multi-talented. If you can pull it off, then great. But at the same time, being expertly skilled at any ONE thing is pretty freaking hard. It's pretty unlikely that you'll be an expert at all three things. Best case scenario is probably that you'll be really freaking good at one thing, and then just competent enough at the other things to (hopefully) supplement the thing that you're really good at. So my advice: keep on doing all three for now. Once you decide which one thing is most important to you, go ahead and keep doing all three things. Just make sure that your priority is on the thing to which you have assigned most importance. If you then find that the others are detracting from the Important Thing, then drop them.
Thanks for all of the comments and advice. Being 18 yrs old, I have plenty of time to see which of the three I'll stick with. I always watch videos of master artists, and feel I should focus on it to become that good; only to then watch videos of guitar virtuosos and then I'm inspired to become that great too.
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