(Part 2) Top products from r/gamemusic
We found 4 product mentions on r/gamemusic. We ranked the 24 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
22. The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness (New Riders Games)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
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If I can be honest without hurting your feelings, the mistakes keep it from being enjoyable. The tempo is not anywhere near as important as the accuracy. However! You definitely demonstrate a skill and love for the instrument, and I am absolutely impressed with your stamina. Now that you've developed stamina and speed, you really need to focus on accuracy. By that I mean, play for 2 1/2 hours every day without making any mistakes, even if it means slowing yourself to half speed. If you do this, you will be back up to this speed, but without mistakes, before you know it.
Not to bang a dead steed, but playing that fast and making that many mistakes - ESPECIALLY if you do it every day - is just going to make you keep making those mistakes. You are spending two and a half hours a day making your hands stronger and enjoying yourself, but you would improve so much faster if you practiced efficiently, by lowering your speed and focusing on accuracy. Playing fast poorly will never lead to playing fast better. You have to play well, slowly, and then the speed comes. Every music teacher and instrumentalist I have ever met has drilled this point in to me.
I wasted years playing the bass and piano fast and sloppy thinking the accuracy would come if I just kept playing. It didn't come until I slowed down and developed it. I wasn't teaching myself to play well, I was teaching myself to do exactly what I was doing - play poorly and quickly.
You have the stamina, the passion, and the skills. Forget about speed, your tempo doesn't need practice. Accuracy takes practice. So if you aren't practicing your accuracy... you're just making yourself better at making mistakes.
I would highly recommend The Art of Practicing if you would like to learn how to get the most out of your practice time.
Uploading something like this takes a lot of courage, so I hope you take these words as the support they are meant to be. I promise if you slow down to whatever speed allows you to play 100% perfectly, you will see drastic improvement in a short amount of time and be back up to this speed, with full accuracy, before you know it. Like, literally just a few weeks. It was the greatest lesson I ever learned about practicing.
Practice doesn't make perfect... perfect practice makes perfect.
Thanks! :)
I would say learn an instrument first and learn music theory on the way. Get an instrument and a good lesson book. Get this book too: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Theory-Edition/dp/1592574378/
Then go from there! I have a lot of stuff on my blog about this too: benprunty.com/blog
http://www.amazon.com/The-Fat-Man-Game-Audio/dp/1592730094
"The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness". This was an entertaining read, and covers some interesting philosophy on game audio.
Looks like that may have been a steal