Poll: Musicians, Do You Have This Problem?

[animemetalhead]

I tend to stumble across a song I love, and end up learning it. (I play guitar, but I know there are lots of people who play other instruments.) My problem is, in the course of learning the song, I get really annoyed with it and once I've done my YouTube cover of it, I never wanna hear the damn thing again.

Anybody else have this happen or am I just weird?

 

[Berethond]

Nope.
But that's because I play jazz, so every time I play it it's different.

 

[Jark212]

If I listen to a song too much I get really tired of it...

 

[bookboy]

(I play guitar, but I know there are lots of people who play other instruments.)

thanks for the acknowledgment...

OT: I don't find that I really have this problem, but that might be because I usually play as part of a band (concert, jazz, and show tunes) and so the choice as to which songs to play isn't really mine. I find that i usually either like or hate a song when we start playing it, and the my opinion of said song rarely changes later on.

perhaps your "problem" is that you focus on only one song at a time, devoting all of your music to that one song to enable you to play it well enough to record a cover version of it, and then you get burned out and come to resent the object of attention.

 

[PacRatFilms]

I mostly play metal (both guitar and bass, depends on the song), so playing smoothly is hard enough to figure out anyway. So not very often for me, but I know what you mean, and yes, it's happened before.

 

[Srkkl]

If i listen to a song to much I get tired of it.

On the instrument part I play drums so usually I learn from interpretation, the only songs I learned exactly were a couple of Rush songs and I still love them.

 

[benoitowns]

Back a few years ago when I wasnt an absolutely dreadful singer i ended up barely enjoying the songs i sang. but it was likely because i was forced to practice it to such an extent that even guitar hero would give me a 100.

 

[Mozared]

No, can't say I've had that happen to me.

 

[Inverse Skies]

Not in the slightest. I love playing what I learn. Your problem reflects much of what happens today in the music industry. You like a song not because it means something to you, but you enjoy it for long enough to think that you like it and then get sick of it when it's played over and over and you realise it's a lot shallower than you first imagined. A true measure of a good song is one that you can listen too over and over without getting sick of it over an extended period of time, something which doesn't happen with what you're playing.

 

[Roxas1359]

Depends on the song for me. I play orchestra music on the trombone, and if the song is extremely difficult then when I don't need to play it anymore I don't play it.

 

[zen5887]

Sometimes when I learn a cover for a uni band I get sick of it. But thats because, in a 4 hour rehearsal we might JUST play that one song. Sometimes just one section.. I remember doing a section of "Ain't Nobody" for about 2 hours. That is 8 bars for two whole hours. The practice paid off though, those 16th note triplets sounded so tight.

 

[FROGGEman2]

Yes.

Sometimes, not always, but yeah.

Also, freaking Youtube covers! I want to listen to Mozart's Requiem, let me listen to fucking Mozart's Requiem!

 

[Arcticflame]

No, because my covers are only a part of a song. There are still the drums, the singing (usually) and the bass to cover, ignoring all the other ambient noises that go on.

Basically, my covers are never a true representation of the song. Even if I play it properly (rarely). So I don't really get sick of them.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

doesn't happen to me. Actually I think i do the opposite, as when I learn how to play a song on the guitar I seem to like it a lot more. The only time where I'll kind of cease playing a song is when it's something that's not fast or fun to play. The one exception to this rule is "Master of puppets" by Metallica. I used to LOVE that song, and it was one of the first songs i learned on the guitar (I was stoked because I was naturally good at tremolo so it sounded much cooler than the other stuff I could play like "iron man" and "smoke on the water.") Now I could probably play the whole thing, including the solo, blindfolded, but i just get so bored while playing it since I've done it so many times. I still like listening to the song though, i just don't like playing it.

 

[brainfreeze215]

Ha. Ok, so I do musical theatre, and if you think learning a song makes you hate it, try learning it and then performing it eight times a week.

Luckily, this doesn't happen with every musical I do. Mostly the classical ones, like "Hello, Dolly!" but when we did "Smokey Joe's Cafe," that music never got old.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Virus0015]

Nope.
But that's because I play jazz, so every time I play it it's different.

Go improvisation! I have just taken my electric guitar grade 5 and don't know a single song, I just improvise on a blues scale for as long as needed. Occasionally during our lunch breaks at school me and a friend on bass will improvise for 30 minutes at a time.

 

[Berethond]

Nope.
But that's because I play jazz, so every time I play it it's different.

Go improvisation! I have just taken my electric guitar grade 5 and don't know a single song, I just improvise on a blues scale for as long as needed. Occasionally during our lunch breaks at school me and a friend on bass will improvise for 30 minutes at a time.

Okay, that's nice.
Now move onto the next level.
(And 30 minutes is nothing, my jazz band once improvised on D Natural Blues for 90.)

 

[Aqualung]

No, they just get imprinted in my brain and I start singing my part randomly. Like the Hallelujah chorus from the Messiah for 1st clarinet, right now.

...Bum, baba ba baba ba baba bum, ba ba ba, ba ba ba, ba bum ba, bum bum ba, bum ba ba, bum...

 

[Enigmers]

I really only learn the songs I really like to begin with.