Join the Jam: 4 Essentials for Accelerated Growth
Hello, fellow Rockstars! Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter, 'Join the Jam'. We're excited to share some valuable insights to help you grow as a guitarist and draw inspiration from our vibrant community. Here are the four (un-cool) essentials for accelerated growth!
(un) Cool Coach: Your Yoda
If you've seen Star Wars you know that Luke Skywalker would never have become a master jedi without... yoda. At first Luke scoffs at the small, green, unassuming jedi, but he quickly learns not to judge a book by its cover. Yoda trains Luke day in and day out for a series of months before he is ready to take his skills out into the universe.
(un) Cool Community: Da Ducks
In the 20th century cinematic masterpiece, The Mighty Ducks, former hockey pro Gordon Bombay is assigned community service in the form of coaching an untalented junior team in the inner city. Unknown to Bombay, the team is hungry for not purpose, precision, or pefection. They just need a simple... PLAN! And together they work his plan as a team and an amazing thing happens. In working the plan they find purpose, precision and achieve near perfection as a TEAM.
(un) Cool Consistency: My Miagi
Our last example of cultural genius comes from the film, Karate Kid, the original of course! A teenage boy begins training with Karate Master, Mr. Miagi. The only problem is that he doesn't train him at all! Instead Miagi has the boy paint fences and wax cars until his arms are ready to fall off! At the boy's breaking point he explodes in anger at Mr. Miagi for not training him at which point the Karate Master calls out, "paint the fence!" as he strikes at the youth. The teen blocks his master's punch. "Wax the car!" he cries out, and another block. What Miagi was teaching was consistency. Doing the same motions day in and day out is how you build muscle memory and muscle memory is the fastest way to become a lifelong, self-sufficient guitarist.
That's it for now.
I hope your guitar dreams are soaring to new heights!
Keep strumming, keep growing, and remember, we're all in this jam together.
If you'd like to grow in your guitar skills together - hit me up ([email protected])
Jam soon,
- JB
Founder of The Stupid Simple Guitar Methodā¢
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