{"id":6338,"date":"2014-08-16T03:01:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6338"},"modified":"2020-02-19T18:50:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T02:50:06","slug":"fake-it-til-you-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/fake-it-til-you-make-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake It Til You Make It…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got an email about one of my more popular courses, 5 Easy Blues Solos<\/a>, and it was something I hear a lot so let’s address it for everyone, shall we?<\/p>\n

The question was basically this –<\/p>\n

“I learned the 5 Easy Blues Solos, but what do I do with them now? When I try to play with a band or at a jam I get all flustered and I don’t know where to start. I’d be happy to simply play some simple 2 or 3 note phrases but I get all twisted up.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is a VERY common problem and one of the biggest sticking points of soloing in general. And it’s because the whole idea of improvising is highly misunderstood…<\/p>\n

For a minute, just imagine that when you talk you are improvising… (that’s not really a stretch because in most cases you are.)<\/p>\n

When you are a little kid, you struggle finding what to say, so to work on that you memorize things like poems, nursery rhymes, songs, and even little speeches.<\/p>\n

Why? Is it because when you speak to someone else you’re going to talk in the form of a poem? Of course not! It’s because of the “fake it til you make it” principle.<\/p>\n

What’s that you ask? By doing the thing that you want to someday be able to do, you get to take away 1 large part of the equation while you fill in some of the other things.<\/p>\n

When you get on stage or get together with some friends, there are a dozen little things that will cloud your brain… so 100% of your brain is focused on things OTHER than what you’re going to play. And guess how much that leaves of your brain power to come up with something play? (I’ll give you a hint… it isn’t very much \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

But let’s say that you don’t have to think about what you’re going to play… you’ve memorized one of the 5 solos and when your turn comes you just play it and it works perfectly.<\/p>\n

With that little bit of success you gained a little confidence and next time you do it you only need 95% of your brain for other things and now you have 5% left over to think about what you’re playing… but that’s not enough so you still play the solo as written but the next time you are down to 90\/10… and so on.<\/p>\n

After a few times, you’ll notice that the nerves are largely gone and you find yourself thinking about how you might change the solo to make it more “your thing.” NOW the improvising is coming into play… but you had to “fake it until you made it.”<\/p>\n

The more experienced you get and the better your technique becomes, the faster that process goes. But the first time is going to take a few tries at least so be patient with yourself and enjoy the ride because it can be a blast!<\/p>\n

Click Here To Check Out 5 Easy Blues Solos…<\/a><\/p>\n

Click Here To Check Out The Entire Course Catalog…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got an email about one of my more popular courses, 5 Easy Blues Solos, and it was something I hear a lot so let’s address it for everyone, shall we? The question was basically this – “I learned the 5 Easy Blues Solos, but what do I do with them now? When I try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7912,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338\/revisions\/7912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}