I’m Applying this Life Lesson to Each Step of the Writing Process
Who knew learning guitar riffs would one day show me how to be a better wordsmith.
Idiot Boxes.
That’s what my former guitar teacher called those boxes on a sheet of music that showed you where to place your fingers on the guitar for each chord.
The boxes were for guitar players who didn’t know how to read music. Hence the term Idiot Boxes.
This term applied to a select group of guys in the class who really didn’t want to take the time to learn how to read music.
They just wanted to look cool with long hair and a guitar in their hands. Right from the beginning they wanted to play like a pro. They wanted to play like Slash or Eddie Van Halen.
But the problem was they didn’t really want to take the time to learn how to do it in the manner that a pro guitar player does. They wanted to play the riffs really fast right from the beginning.
This is when I learned a profound truth from the guitar teacher. The teacher said:
If you can’t play it slow; you can’t play it fast.
This is a profound truth that really applies to anything in life. If you can’t do something slow, how are you going to be able to do it…
