Something Advanced Musicians Don't Understand
This post will be best understood by people who have been learning a stringed instrument for at least a year. I recently started my 11th grade in college (the system is a little different where I live, so just accept it). There's different clubs in college, and I've signed up for a club as a performer. Today I had to go for an audition for one of the inter-collegiate events coming up. I was looking forward to this audition, because I knew I would nail it, but things didn't go exactly the way I thought they would. The person who took my audition (let's name him A) was a part of the club, and a fellow organiser and performer. For the audition, I carried my acoustic guitar. They didn't have an amplifier, so I couldn't use their electric guitar or bring my own (I didn't carry my amplifier because I was traveling in a train, very inconvenient). He asked me to play something. I told him I had just started working on 'Rain' by Vinnie Moore. I took ...