Comments on: How To Practice http://shaungroves.com/2012/11/how-to-practice/ Official site of Shaun Groves - musician, speaker, advocate for children living in poverty Wed, 22 May 2013 22:21:24 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: krisyoursis http://shaungroves.com/2012/11/how-to-practice/#comment-48555 krisyoursis Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:35:03 +0000 http://shaungroves.com/?p=12347#comment-48555 yep, you and Miss P must be have a bit of “otter” in you, too! :) We did the personality profile thingamajigger at church last night and discovered our son is 100% OTTER…which is why teaching him to read “in 100 easy lessons” has NOT been easy, and has taken about two years! He loathes practice…but he’s oh, SO creative! Homeschooling otter children is SO great for a mama’s prayer life and character development!

]]> By: Brad http://shaungroves.com/2012/11/how-to-practice/#comment-48553 Brad Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:47:50 +0000 http://shaungroves.com/?p=12347#comment-48553 *sigh* Painful truth. Vocal practice, rewriting songs (or writing new ones), learning new arrangements for our songs on guitar because it makes the song better when the old way of playing it was easier. Oh, and learning to edit songs for our recordings and demos when I’m deathly afraid of messing something up. Doesn’t it sound good enough? All stuff I *want* to do, yet I find myself deathly afraid of it. There are times that I’ve wanted to abandon my songs and just do covers of songs that are already accepted as “good” and I can sing and play them well. Much easier than learning to write great songs. I didn’t actually anticipate being back in school when we started making music. So much to learn.

]]> By: Matthew (FzxGkJssFrk) http://shaungroves.com/2012/11/how-to-practice/#comment-48549 Matthew (FzxGkJssFrk) Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:26:01 +0000 http://shaungroves.com/?p=12347#comment-48549 Loved this. So true, and I’m teaching my eight-year-old daughter’s little fingers to play right now.

]]> By: Melissa Jones http://shaungroves.com/2012/11/how-to-practice/#comment-48533 Melissa Jones Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:30:58 +0000 http://shaungroves.com/?p=12347#comment-48533 So what I’m hearing is that I should put the computer down, walk past the Kindle, and “practice” the laundry again.

Sigh….

I never liked practicing either. My piano teachers hated it because I could sightread just enough better each week that they couldn’t say I wasn’t improving, but they _knew_ I wasn’t practicing because if I had been, I’d be awesome and instead I was just pretty good.

]]> By: Katie Axelson http://shaungroves.com/2012/11/how-to-practice/#comment-48532 Katie Axelson Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:08:10 +0000 http://shaungroves.com/?p=12347#comment-48532 Confession: I’m read this (and writing this comment) after rereading an old piece I wrote because it’s pretty and the one I’m supposed to be writing right now isn’t.

]]> By: Jessica http://shaungroves.com/2012/11/how-to-practice/#comment-48531 Jessica Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:39:12 +0000 http://shaungroves.com/?p=12347#comment-48531 Also – I’ve still got it.

*blows imaginary smoke from imaginary comment gun*

]]> By: Jessica http://shaungroves.com/2012/11/how-to-practice/#comment-48530 Jessica Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:26:06 +0000 http://shaungroves.com/?p=12347#comment-48530 You had a lovely like button going for awhile and now it seems to have disappeared. How am I supposed to let you know that I like this?

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