I feel your pain. Same here. The coding part is rather easy; but a nice content is beyond my skills.
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I feel your pain. Same here. The coding part is rather easy; but a nice content is beyond my skills.
There's actually a number of things I wished I could do but the lack of both Time and talent mean they're just pipe dreams at this point.
Play the piano/guitar (I'm tone deaf so this is a talent issue)
Restore a muscle car (not all that mechanically gifted but I lack the time to invest along with no money)
Play the piano/guitar (I'm tone deaf so this is a talent issue)
Restore a muscle car (not all that mechanically gifted but I lack the time to invest along with no money)
As long as you know the specific notes to play and your guitar is in tune, you can still do well.
Neil Giraldo of Pat Benatar band, a totally respected guitarist and songwriter, is tone deaf. If you know the shapes of the chords, how they fit together, and where the notes are in a scale, you can get by. Heck, you don't even have to hear if your music theory is solid as evidenced by a nearly deaf Beethoven who wrote some of his best material based just on theory and not physically "hearing" it. He could see a passage on a written notation and know that would fit just right.
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Mind. Blown.
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For me, I have some music knowledge (I took lessons and have played the piano for several years), I can read music fairly well and would not consider myself (entirely) tone-deaf, but music theory baffles me. Surprising actually, because I enjoy mathematics and the like.
But apart from that being able to record, edit, and mix my own music would be *awesome*.
There are some interesting goals here.
Whatever your goals or dreams are, I've got one piece of advice for you:
Start on them. Today.
If you want to learn the guitar - pull it out of the closet, pick up some sheet music, or a scale diagram, or fire up some YouTube videos - and start playing. You'll probably suck at first. You'll probably suck for months - but you'll get better. And nothing ever felt better than the first time your playing starts to sound like music.
If you dream of writing apps, or juggling five balls, or whatever - start today. Stop making excuses about how busy you are.
If you have a job or a family situation that really does make learning a complicated new skill impractical, then scale back your expectations. Maybe put aside or change your goal. But never stop learning.
Whatever your goals or dreams are, I've got one piece of advice for you:
Start on them. Today.
If you want to learn the guitar - pull it out of the closet, pick up some sheet music, or a scale diagram, or fire up some YouTube videos - and start playing. You'll probably suck at first. You'll probably suck for months - but you'll get better. And nothing ever felt better than the first time your playing starts to sound like music.
If you dream of writing apps, or juggling five balls, or whatever - start today. Stop making excuses about how busy you are.
If you have a job or a family situation that really does make learning a complicated new skill impractical, then scale back your expectations. Maybe put aside or change your goal. But never stop learning.
So true. I got stuck at a certain point on guitar and couldn't break out of being a rock and roll player because I couldn't read proper sheet music.
There are so many non rock, non pop pieces totally not available on CD or youtube and the only way I can hear it is to read it. At first it's a total mystery but reading and understanding how it's written has made me start to make the next step beyond mere improvising.
Being able to play a piece only by hearing it first shuts out all pieces not on a recorded medium and thus most of the world's composed music.
Draw and paint well enough to work in tattoos, comics and film.
To able to sew and sculpt to cosplay. I did some rudimentary make ups and crude costumes a decade ago, but the level of work today fans produce just boggles my mind.
To able to sew and sculpt to cosplay. I did some rudimentary make ups and crude costumes a decade ago, but the level of work today fans produce just boggles my mind.
I want to play the saxophone, and I would like to sometime have a voice character in an animated show or video game. Not a lead role, but someone who just yells, "Hey!! Look out" or something generic like that. Haha
Since you are/were into cosplay, I'm gonna assume you're an anime fan. To regular folks the following advices will be absurd, but to anime fans it's genius. Go train in the mountains.
My son couldn't draw a stick figure to save his life. So I took my son to the mountains and had him chop wood. Chopping wood is the ultimate form of training for anything
, since it trains the mind, body AND soul. Anyhow... several thousand logs later he still can't draw. A least now the crazy hermit artist agreed to give him lessons in thanks for supplying several years worth of firewood.
Since you are/were into cosplay, I'm gonna assume you're an anime fan. To regular folks the following advices will be absurd, but to anime fans it's genius. Go train in the mountains.
My son couldn't draw a stick figure to save his life. So I took my son to the mountains and had him chop wood. Chopping wood is the ultimate form of training for anything
LOL. Great answer Mousse, got the reference despite not being an anime person since middle school (when I cosplayed as Mark from G-Force on Halloween. My mom ruled in making that costume. I wish I could remember how she did the beak on the helmet.)
Cosplay has become the de facto term for costuming in fandom over the past few years, but if I goofed in using it here won't be the first time.
Thanks for the laugh and the advice.
Start my business
Decorate my house
Put dry wall in my basement.
Put carpet on my stairs
Gardening
Put patio stones in my backyard
Paint my house
Learn to swim
Master 3DS Max
Learn photography
Get back to equestrian
I can go on but I don't have time.
Decorate my house
Put dry wall in my basement.
Put carpet on my stairs
Gardening
Put patio stones in my backyard
Paint my house
Learn to swim
Master 3DS Max
Learn photography
Get back to equestrian
I can go on but I don't have time.
Start my business
Decorate my house
Put dry wall in my basement.
Put carpet on my stairs
Gardening
Put patio stones in my backyard
Paint my house
Learn to swim
Master 3DS Max
Learn photography
Get back to equestrian
I can go on but I don't have time.
Some of those are quite achievable, but maybe not all at the same time!