Share Your Goals and Dreams!

[Jak Angelescu]

Hey everyone! I was just thinking about my dream and my goals while practicing and they are very clear to me. I feel like it helps me stay focused and oriented with practicing. It’s something that I make a part of my daily life. So I was just wondering – what are your goals, dreams, and ambitions with guitar? I would definitely love to hear them!

 

[Elton Breaux]

My dream is simply that my kids will see me jamming to some good rock n roll and they will learn to love rock music. Im hoping to do my part in keeping rock alive!!

 

[supraja vadlamani]

Last year, a close friend of mine turned to me and said “Supraja, in 5 years, I think you’re going to give up school and everything you’re doing and tour in a band as a guitarist or something.” While this is something I never considered, it would be cool to do that. I started learning the guitar after my friend said this to me, who at the moment knew that I didn’t even know what notes were on the open strings of a guitar, or even what a fret was. It’s been a long and fruitful journey since then! This isn’t my goal in life, because I love what I’m studying and got into my dream university for graduate school this coming fall, but it’ll be exciting if it does happen. Still a long way to go but hey, a girl can dream

 

[Sayonil Mitra]

My ultimate goal is to be a guitarist in a rock/metal band and tour all around the world. Maybe someday, a point will come where someone will listen to my song and instantly recognise “Oh, I know who’s playing this!!!”. That sometimes seem distant though but I keep trying.

 

[Alan Celis]

i would like to have a nice job as a doctor and have enough time to follow musical projects and maybe launch an album or two

 

[Guest]

There are so many dreams to bring to life! Since I study in the broad range of science, I see that playing a guitar is beneficial for me even if I don’t have plans to be in a band at the moment. Playing an instrument is beneficial to creating neural connections since I consider myself as left-brain dominance. Composing or simply practicing my guitar gets me pumped to study or work on projects.
In my music theory class back in middle school (it was part of the curriculum), I was trained to read sheet music for several other instruments including guitar. We didn’t get far into guitar though, it was just basically playing with open strings. Thus learning from Papa Gates that there are tabulatures out there is a life saver! So one of my goals would be try to be independent from reading tabs/sheet, and that means a lot of practice and muscle memory. And ultimately, voila! Be able to play a Syn solo.

 

[idssdi]

As far as skill goes I just want to be able to kinda play whatever I want to play on a whim (eventhough that is pretty much impossible for most people). As far as dream it probably is making a decent living plaYing guitar (this is actually really hard I know)

 

[Ben Thorpe]

I don’t really have any major goals like to become the best guitar player ever. I just play whatever I feel like playing and enjoy it. I’ll just continue playing whatever I want on guitar as long as I’m enjoying it! I’d like to make my own music when I feel as though I am ready and I have the appropriate software!

 

[Daniel Sobota]

My goal is to change the world.

 

[Jackson Harsin]

My goals and dreams for guitar aren’t to make it big or become this famous guitarist or anything of the sort, if that were to happen great, but if it doesn’t I don’t mind. My dream is to make music that can touch the hearts and feelings of others and allow them to feel exactly what I put into a piece, and hopefully find some solace within it, as pretentious as it sounds ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

 

[Ed Seith]

I used to want to be a rock star. Not for the drugs (never did ’em) or the women (got the only one I need) or the glory or anything. I grew up idolizing the rock stars like Randy Rhoads – in it for the music, and just looking to keep expanding horizons, musically.
I have to say, I think the musician that most encompasses that to me, today, is probably Mark Holcomb, from Periphery. Very musical, always trying to get better, and all of his “addictions” seem to be gear-based. In his downtime, he goes around the country doing PRS clinics, which is where I met him.
Somewhere along the path, I got away from the “expanding musical knowledge” bit, and I’m starting to get back on that road here at the school, while also finding exercises and stuff to help bring my technique into better form and fill in gaps (Syn’s Etudes on legato, alternate picking, and sweep picking are big in my daily warmup right now).
I don’t want to be a rock star anymore. I don’t want to write a popular song (that part might be cool, but what passes for popular today? No thanks. Go away, Selena Gomez). I want to gig for decent-sized crowds, playing anything, and inspire my youngest in the way I was unable to do so with my older two (though they both do love the METAL, and that was important to me, too!)

 

[Guest]

Back 10 years ago, My goal would have been to have toured the world in a metal band. Since then, I studied in college, then studied in uni, took a year out and then went back to uni again. Now, Im 27 this year!The dream never faded, but I got a bit older, and other things caught my attention. Of course I’d love to be rocking it up playing tours and just to genuinely play the guitar, but then composing caught my eye a couple years ago. Now I’m doing a non musical related project which could potentially be a career path later on.
My goal today is to keep myself happy and healthy. To focus on what matters to me, and how my actions and positive (Or negative) experiences can help develop my characteristics and skills to not only make me a better musician, but to make me a stronger person! I hope I didnt go too much into detail here, but I’m most happiest when I can make a difference to others, music or no music.

 

[Jak Angelescu]

I absolutely ADORE all these comments! This is such a wonderful thing because it shows us that music doesn’t have a dream about being famous in order to satisfy and enrich our lives. I’m seeing so many wonderful things about sharing music and impacting others, self enrichment and just in general having a good time. I love all of these responses so much! I guess that’s why you’re all such total badasses… you all have great hearts

 

[Guest]

Hey Jaks,
I think that is a big part of music,and not only music but acting, writing, painting and sculpting etc. These subjects enable us to be so passionate, emotional and expressional, that any one of these topics is like and extension of our selves exploring creativity and developing skills. I think the ‘fame’ and the touring the world is just a bonus. But we have to be happy over all!

 

[Noah Berends]

I’d love to one day be able to make a career out of making music I love.

 

[Israel Stefanello]

my ambition as a musician would be to have a rock band and travel and to pass joy and adrenaline through the music to the people with my band autoral (if I had) but as not everything is possible I think I want to learn the maximum about guitar until my 40 years I’m 22 now and able to play for my son and daughter in the future (if I be contemplated) I think it’s the maximum point for me this
and of course my goal today is to take the afterlife solo and face exist as I want to be able to do this

 

[Dan Shipway]

To be able to play the afterlife and second heartbeat solo

 

[Jackson Harsin]

@ Dan Shipway that comment honestly makes me crack a smile and be nostalgic as all hell, I remember when I first started playing and those were some of the songs that made me pick up a guitar and I’d always day dream of what it would be like to be in Syn’s shoes playing those songs, more specifically those amazing solos. Keep it up my man and you’ll be there faster than you can believe.