It’s Good to Play an Instrument Badly....Watson

It’s Good to Play an Instrument Badly It’s good to play an instrument badly. A lot of people don’t learn how to play an instrument because they think it will be hard. It’s only hard to play with skill. It’s easy and good to just play badly. If you’re a person with a lot of feelings, playing an instrument might help you process those.by Sam Watson

If you have a favorite song that gives you a very strong feeling, you could learn to play your instrument along with it and maybe get closer to that feeling. If you turn the song up very loud, then it will be almost impossible to hear your lack of talent. You will still feel like you are part of the moment. Maybe this could help you.

Another good thing to do is to get some friends and play your instruments together. You will probably sound like shit, but that’s OK. Friends do not judge each other. You might try consuming a lot of drugs or alcohol. This will help you be more creative, and it will be harder to hear your mistakes. You and your friends can play very loud, dissonant sounds. Perhaps you can find meaning, together, in this experience.

You can buy a very cheap, poor quality instrument. It will still make music. If you are a bad musician, you don’t need an expensive one anyway. Think of what a memorable experience it would be to go to a pawn shop and purchase a dusty, broken instrument that has sat in a stranger’s basement for a long time. Maybe it has mysterious secrets. If you haggle with the merchant, he will give you a deal.

I hope you buy an instrument. I hope you see that it will help you and that it can make you a better person. You can say things with your instrument about the way you feel and think that you could not say otherwise.

No one has to hear those things if you don’t want them to. You can play an instrument badly all alone, and no one will ever know.