be a guitarist

when I was 21 years old (now almost 25) I heard a guitarist named Bill Frisell. Prior to that, I have been playing guitar everyday since I was about 15 but never had a lesson. I only knew the basic pentatonic scale and open chords. But when I heard Bill Frisell my entire life had been changed and I was opened up to this world of possibilities on the guitar that I never really knew. Since then, I went to school for music for about a year and then dropped out because of feelings of self-doubt and feeling like I was being stupid for pursuing music because it would never get me anywhere. It’s hard, now I am almost done with my psychology degree and am hoping to find work in a city somewhere and begin taking lessons and continue to pursue music during all of my time that I am not working. It is so great to read others stories on here, you are all very inspiring people and I think this site is a great idea because sometimes we feel so alone, sometimes we don’t have anyone there to tell us “hey that’s pretty good you should really keep working at it!”. Music is like this bug or a infection that I caught and I can’t get rid of it, nor do I want to. I have days where it is so hard to think of myself going into the working 9-5 world and taking away time from music, listening to music, figuring out things on cd’s, etc. I lost a girlfriend because of my indecisiveness in battling with pursuing music or school. It’s better that I did because I still feel a big urge to do something with music and I need to be with someone who will accept me for who I am. Ok enough is enough!

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