You didn't leave any time for GIRLS! What's the point of playing guitar/piano/bass/tuba if the GIRLS don't dig it?
Only your hands are occupied when playing guitar...
You didn't leave any time for GIRLS! What's the point of playing guitar/piano/bass/tuba if the GIRLS don't dig it?
Yea, I've got the girl that digs it also... we usually go out once a week or so, depending.
After practicing guitar for a few hours, sax for a few hours, I can't imagine moving over to the piano stool . . .
Well, I think it depends on what you consider 'reasonably good'. I think you can get pretty decent at guitar if you play four hours a day ten years long. So I think you could just as easily good at four instruments if you practice each one hour a day for fourty years. Seems possible to me.
ok -- how about balancing reasonably good in a reasonable amount of time :)
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- HST
Actually, this 10,000 hours is an interesting number. There's a cool paper where they studied a lot of different people: chess players, athletes, and the like. They concluded that natural talent isn't as important as putting in the time. To get to a level that people consider to be 'mastery' you need 10,000 hours of practice, which works out to be ~3 hours a day for 10 years (about 1,000 hours of practice a year).
http://www.icleps.org/Papers/Ericsson%20et%20al%20Psych%20Rev%201993.pdf (warning big pdf file!)
But if 10,000 hours is mastery, then the real question is what is the number of hours you need where you're 'reasonably good'. I would think that's much less...
That being said, I'm trying to learn guitar, piano, and voice, well enough to write interesting songs and perform them, so that's 4 different 'things' to get 'reasonably good' at, it seems :)