Re: dedication and sacrifice

["Howard Chandler" <chandler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dedication, perhaps.  Sacrifice.  Well certainly there will be sacrifice any
way you look at it -- if you choose to look at it that way.  Lets say this
young person should chose not to sacrifice her friends, family, and security
and gave up an opportunity that I suspect that many of us wish we'd been
blessed with.  That could also be seen as a sacrifice.  Hopefully, her
choice is is based on her own aspirations, and that she will be blessed with
the discernment to know which is the lesser of the sacrifices.

Howard Chandler
Mandeville, LA


- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger A Gonzales" <gonz1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>; <slidemeister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: dedication and sacrifice


>
> Dear Harplers
>
> Dedication and sacrifice are fueled by passion.  If music and playing the
harmonica, or any musical instrument for that matter, is what impassions
you, you WILL make the sacrifices.  However, it will not seem so
difficult...not really.
>
> Sacrifice is the surrender or the elimination of something valued for the
sake of having a higher or more pressing claim.  When someone feels driven
to accomplish something that has become valuable in their life, and in what
they see in their future as what they deem important, the job will get done,
no matter what the price.
>
> Rainbow Jimmy writes;
> > How many of us are willing to make those sacrifices and show that
> > much
> > dedication?
>
> The price for success is a non-negotiable item.  It has to be paid in
full.  I am one semester from my BA in Music Education and there has been
many obstacles and trials that have attempted to get in my way.  I have not
nor will I let them get me down.
>
> Rainbow Jimmy also writes;
> Where would harp players find that level of intense
> > instruction
> > even if we did make the choice?
>
> This is where most harp players miss the boat.  Far too many harmonica
players spend too much time trying to become good harp players and not
enough time becoming good musicians.  There are community colleges, private
teachers and a million CDs out there to help you improve your music skills,
from being able to read music and learning music fundamentals to improving
your musicality.  If there is not a mentor within driving distance, get with
someone who is willing to mentor you using an instrument other than the
harmonica!  You can learn instruction from a sax or trumpet player that can
be transfered to the harmonica.  Enrolling in a music fundamentals class in
a community college will help EVERY harmonica play out there bar none.  If
you want to learn a language, you speak it first, and then you learn to read
and write it.  Music is a language all its own.  You learn to play it, and
then learn to understand it better by being able to read it and write it.
Even doing this in
>  the most elementary form will benefit you for the rest of your playing
career.
> If the passion is there, it will be a wonderful journey and oh so worth
it.  Take it from someone who is on that journey as I speak.
>
> regards,
> Roger Gonzales
>
>
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