I feel this post so much. I keep thinking I should get out my flute and start playing again, but there's a big wall of skills I'd need to relearn to start sounding decent and like you, I'm not sure I'll successfully scale it. Plus, I don't think there's an OLGA for flute music out there somewhere, and I have very little sheet music.
I started this to be a piece to document my struggles to master specific techniques (alternate picking in specific) and how even the great practitioners (Al di Meola, Paul Gilbert in particular) who make it look so easy had to put in mega hours of practice to become so good.
It was to point out that as good as you are, there will always be someone better.
And that's OK. You do you, and not worry about the masters. Also, the masters didn't start as masters. They worked their asses off to achieve that level.
(Plus, the masters are, in general, very humble people, and do not lord it over others. Unlike a certain orange tinted former resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave)
I feel this post so much. I keep thinking I should get out my flute and start playing again, but there's a big wall of skills I'd need to relearn to start sounding decent and like you, I'm not sure I'll successfully scale it. Plus, I don't think there's an OLGA for flute music out there somewhere, and I have very little sheet music.
I hear ya.
I started this to be a piece to document my struggles to master specific techniques (alternate picking in specific) and how even the great practitioners (Al di Meola, Paul Gilbert in particular) who make it look so easy had to put in mega hours of practice to become so good.
It was to point out that as good as you are, there will always be someone better.
And that's OK. You do you, and not worry about the masters. Also, the masters didn't start as masters. They worked their asses off to achieve that level.
(Plus, the masters are, in general, very humble people, and do not lord it over others. Unlike a certain orange tinted former resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave)