I was told that the best way to get past it is to continue consuming content of said skill. Not too much tutorials as it'll overwhelm, but daily content of said skill to keep the interest burning.
Over the years I've learned, it's really no rush gaining skills. Do hobbies when you enjoy them, focus and work hard when you can, and when you can't don't feel guilty for putting the hobby down. Perhaps there'll come a season when you want to come back to it, perhaps not. Some seasons you're not in a position to focus on it, and there may come a season when unexpectedly it suddenly "clicks." It's okay to explore all the good the world has to offer in the meantime. In my case, I've been circling the same hobbies for over 2 decades now. I used to feel awful about not being successful enough soon enough, especially when others did what I couldn't at younger ages. I had dreams of really "making money or something out of them, getting 'successful' or popular, etc." but over the years... I realized I only really wanted those things because other people online achieved those things. I like their work, their content, but it doesn't mean I have to take that path. And when I was forcing myself to was when I was the most miserable. Now I'm working a job in a completely different field comfortably from home, livelihood secured, and so my hobbies are just that once again. Fun activities to do or learn more about. I do still have goals for each of these hobbies, perhaps some will be achieved and others not, but it's all at my own pace. :)
@@finitedrawsstuff Thank you! And this animation was great, by the way! The disjointed hues were done so well, not to mention the perspective throughout!
There is a LOT of wisdom in this comment that I feel like people who haven't gone through the same experiences won't be able to understand, this is something I was and still struggle with to this day, I can't put into words how hard it is but you my friend expressed very well what many of us are going through.
I love seeing the “chromatic abberation” show the dissonance between expectations and reality!! This subtle bit was EASILY readable in this animation, so I wanna give kudos!!
So that's what's that special visual effect I see every now and then is called! Thank you kind person on the Internet for casually mentioning the name of it! ^_^
The gifted kid syndrome be hitting hard man, And a note You won’t always get it right on the first try, I know and it’s alright to make mistakes even if that pesky voice in your head or someone says otherwise. you can be tired! Practice makes better not perfect. You won’t be perfect at anything but you can be really good at it, to the point others think you’re perfect. So keep on going, whether it’s a dream, a hobby or something that a voice says it’s silly. Please don’t give in to the pressure, because only you can decide what’s good for you. Not even your parents Anyways that’s it. Hope y’all have a great time!
gifted kids are lie they just secretly learned it and they look like they skilled but most of the time dont even reach high levels because dont have motivation to do so
As i gifted kid that started piano as a hobby 5 years ago i must say that i rel- DONT relate at all ahahhahahahah i was immediately talented at the piano for some reason so get DUNKED ON i kept on playing and gotten better, just dont look at the other (non) achievements in my life. Also even if i was very good at piano i was lazy af at first, its taken me years to slowly get the discipline to learn how to learn but since i already had a pleasure and motivation to play piano plus external factors that pushed me to keep playing, i stayed patient with it and kept improving albeit slowly
I first started crocheting around 4 years ago. It was during the spring in 2020 and I was bored, so I decided to try it out. I only learned how to do a simple square using the single crochet stitch, but even then the squares were wonky (the rows getting longer then shorter making the sides of the square wavy with a bunch of holes in the middle). I tried making a bucket hat and a beanie, both of which didn’t turn out how I wanted to, so I kinda just quit for a while. A year or so later, I was gifted a bunch of yarn and crochet hooks from a friend who learned that I tried crochet once and just had that stuff sitting in their attic. Since I had a lot more materials and was getting bored of my current hobby at the time, I decided to try and pick it up again. I went on TH-cam and looked up how to crochet animals. Most of the videos were of amigurumi (basically stuffed animals), but I found a simple one of a flat butterfly and thought it looked cute. There were a lot of new crochet techniques in the video that I hadn’t learned before, but it was a beginner friendly video so the person showed what they were doing and what it was called very clearly. It took a couple (around 6) butterflies to make it without it looking lopsided, but when I finally got it to look how it did in the video, I was super excited! So with my knowledge of the techniques I learned from the video, I decided to try other flat shapes such as a heart and a flower. And once I got comfortable with those, I decided I wanted to crochet a gift for a friend of mine and, since they loved cats, I looked up how to crochet a cat on YT. I found a beginner friendly amigurumi video and followed along with it. I was really proud of the finished product and my friend loved it too! Since I knew I could crochet a cat, I started creating other things, most of which were amigurumi animals. But recently I decided to try making clothing. My first project was a hexagon cardigan (jacket) and I definitely learned what not to do when creating them, but it turned out fine overall. I made another hexagon cardigan and it turned out better than the first one. I’m now making a sweater and it’s going well so far. I’m glad I decided to pick up crocheting again and that it’s going so well, but I understand what it’s like trying a new hobby and not picking it up again because I wasn’t immediately good at it. I probably would not like crochet as much as I do if I had tried a more difficult pattern rather than the butterfly. I have had many other hobbies that I’ve tried and then quit a little while after, either due to frustration, a lack of interest, or a lack of time, but I’ve been able to find hobbies that I enjoy. Overall, trying out hobbies is fun to do, you’ll find some hobbies that you take to immediately, some that take a bit of trial and error, and others you’ll find don’t interest you as much. For trying new hobbies, I would recommend learning the basics first (obviously), but once you’re able to remember a majority of the basics, challenge yourself with a new part of the hobby that has some new ideas/techniques in them but not an overwhelming amount. For example, playing the piano: learn the notes (or have some tape with the name of the notes on the corresponding key), practice beginner songs (Mary had a little lamb, hot cross buns, ect.), and once you’re able to play those songs without pausing between each chord/note, try other songs that are a bit more difficult (a bit faster paced, a less repetitive tune, more movement between notes, in a different time, ect.) while making sure it’s not too difficult.
Thank you so much for your comment and advice!! I have picked up the piano again and decided to take things slowly this time. Hopefully i'll stick with it till the end
@@finitedrawsstuff I’m glad it helped! Learning a hobby gradually always runs the risk of losing interest, but if you’re able to stick with it, you learn a lot of tricks that help if you want to experiment with the hobby (which, for me, is my favorite part)
I have made the same mistake, except I only know how to make a stitch and I have no idea what a magic loop is and never picked up the hobby afterwards again. **inhales,** *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-*
That tutorial binge-watching section is way too accurate. I recently picked up animation, and I have probably watched a month and a half worth of content on posing, weight, and how to use the program. 😭
I literally went through this video's process for 3D animation, except I throw everything into the closet tagged "return to when I doubt everything else again yet inevitably thrown back in."
For all who wants to take up a hobby, there is a very big difference with learning how to do something and taking up a new hobby. I’m a digital/traditional artist who wants to learn how to make music or mastering to play piano and learn In filmography, but my mind doesn’t start with this high goal of learning to make a whole ass song, or a filming a whole ass movie. You need to start with why you even have the tools/instrument for your hobby in the first place. Pick up a pencil and paper put the pencil on the paper and make a line and whatever shape I don’t care if it ain’t perfect looking, there you can draw now, have fun. Pick up your phone and take a selfie or take a photo of the sky, or record yourself doing whatever, there you can do photography and videography. Take your piano, play whatever notes I don’t care if it sounds dissonant af, there you might be a pianist now. Maybe soon you’ll have fun drawing a bunch of stickmen you’ll even take the interest to try to make a face even it looks bad, maybe you’ll have fun taking photos that suddenly you’ll try to take photos and videos in such a way you’ll suddenly try putting a subject and background in a specific composition, even though your camera in your phone doesn’t have high dynamic range, maybe you’ll have fun playing the piano so much you’ll try to play the first few notes of “Megalovania” to troll your friends that you may even try to learn how to play chords. To take up a tool/instrument is not that the tool was made for you to be good at it or impress your peers. It all started with just having fun at it for yourself and never taking it too seriously the first time, that is how you take up a hobby… Goodluck
When i start new hobbies or new games. I tend to dip my foot but not really spend much time. But as i get better i find myself spending more time since im drawn in to the cooler things im doing since i have enough skills to do more interesting things.
i’m very into crafty things and i have tried about 7 or 8 different things, gave up on like 4, then later gave up on like 2 more, gave up on another and now just go back and forth with school and my one hobby - crocheting yea thanks for reading my hobby backstory oh and i bake sometimes
learning stuff became a lot easier after I reminded myself on how to learn. all the studying and listening to people yap, that’s all a side activity because to learn you just kinda gotta do everything over and over and over and over and over again until your brain EATS the information and becomes the hobby, like how do you think you got so good at video games.
thissss bro, ive told heaps of people with art you just need to constantly be learning and looking at other peoples art and putting stuff into practice and just trying again and again and if you fail u THEN use a tutorial, instead of just info binging
@@_sandy_100% agree, most of the tutorials out there just exist as brainrot because the creator wants to make money. Just do it! Ideally do it together with others. Or pay for a teacher / course. I try to watch tutorials about 20% of the time and the rest is up to me to explore.
As a musician, this is exactly how I feel about drawing 😅 much respect for the animation, gonna have to go to my closet of stuff I never touch and pull out a notbook and start doodling
I was worried that was going to happen after I invested hundreds into tools and supplies for making a couple fursuits, but I've been putting in 5-10 hours a week for the last 2 months and I'm still having fun with it. It has absorbed almost all of my free time.
part of the problem i had with piano is most of the beginner songs weren’t fun to play. The Tarantula Dance ended up becoming my favorite out of the book my instructor made me use and that became the reason i stayed on it at the time
Ah yes I love this ADHD kinda s. hit when I get interested in something for a day/week/month and then lose the interest completely. I've had dozens of hobbies with reoccurring interest, but eventually left with nothing, but depression and smth like learned helplessness. Now if I catch myself getting interested in something - I stop myself, knowing how painful it will be to lose interest. I'm grey now.
Fireworks are short-lived, but they make the most spectacular display on the way out. Embrace that everything is temporary and enjoy making those beautiful sparks.
What? Are humans collecting the comments now? I would be thankful if someone liked my animations, not some comments that I randomly drop everywhere... that's funny 😂
I was drawing for 2 years and never felt like I understood what I was doing, or what I wanted from it. My improvement was minimal. I always found myself wanting to do anything other than draw because of my lack of creativity and self doubt. I always felt like I should have been doing better than I was. Eventually I gave up, and stopping made me happier, though I still feel like it's something I want to do. I dunno if I'll ever revisit it.
You just perfectly described how I feel about my hobbies. I never enjoy them, and I do them with the thought that when I get good THEN I'll start to enjoy the hobby. I think the real talent is being able to enjoy something without being good at it. Unfortunately that's never happened with me.
I feel the same exact way with drawing. I just want the end result I absolutely despise the process. I just want to be able to put the picture in my head exactly how I want it on the paper or improve on it as I’m drawing, not just fuck everything up!
I've always had such a complicated relationship with art, i fixed it by quitting after a lot of years and switchting to guitar, it jusy clicked immediatly, it felt right and even if i was bad i could still enjoy it. I went like "damn so that's what a hobby is supposed to feel like"
I know theres a lot of people commenting about theres stories of starting, committing and sticking with hobbies with advice. I will only say one thing. From my experience the main obstacle to learning is the frustration and the feeling of feeling stupid and angry of “why can’t I get this right”. I saw the TED talk “The First 20 Hours” and Im always reminded of the single phrase when I want to quit: “The major barrier to skill acquisition is NOT intellectual, it IS emotional” and it is reaalllllllly really true. I think learning the neuroscience behind learning also really helps. I recommend Andrew Huberman’s video on learning because I learn frustration is actually our body flooding ourselves with neurochemicals to alarm “YOURE NOT DOING IT RIGHT YOU DINGUS” and wierdly enough thats when the most effective learning happens you just got to push through it in addition to other things. Also apparently you can attach dopamine to frustration.
I remember an artist saying that it's important to figure out if an idea is genuinely something you want to make, vs something that would be cool if it existed. That way you can put focus on the ideas that you wanna work on while not chasing every stray idea and getting burnt out in the process.
This was so cool :,) the hand and arm animations were insane, and 3D aesthetic with the different hues is really cool. Finding what hobbies click and which ones don’t isn’t too scary, but what is is feeling anxiety, fear, and lack of motivation for the things you know you’re passionate about. Wether it’s a sport, an instrument, or a brush or pen, that initial overwhelming feeling in your hands of being terrified to make a mistake is real. But sometimes you just gotta start, and accept that yeah you’re gonna suck at first, because everyone does, and if they say they didn’t they’re lying. It’s all about not giving up, and most importantly having fun that’s key
i was listening to this podcast and they said how things like this, you're creating the habit of always wanting more, and so when you work hard to find something and do so much to master it, when you eventually become top grade and really good at it, you wont be happy. in that way, you'll never really be satisfied with what you do. (the podcast is on spotify and probably other platforms, its Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee, the episodes are weekly and give rlly interesting perspectives. one of the ones that got me looking into him was this really old doctor talking about death (? i think, smth like that), super interesting)
YOU. YOU ANIMATED MOONLIGHT SONATA WITH ALL THE RIGHT NOTES. I ALREADY LOVE THIS +1 SUB YAY also if you’re really learning piano irl than please remember that there’s definitely a learning curve!! it all clicks eventually :) I have a low attention span so I just usually do 20 mins a day with breaks on the weekends. It works for me! :3
For me it was throwing piano in "things I will never touch again", but then touch it again one year after. Guys, take a break if you are starting to feel irritated from your hobby, even if it's a long one. It's worth it if you eventually regain the interest, now with genuine interest in the process, not in just finishing results.
This is literally me. I bought a digital piano after I came across a video of Spider Dance on piano after so many years finished the game. Started with songs for beginners but gave up quickly. That was not what I wanted. Then I started to learn THAT song, though I knew it's nearly impossible. It was hard, but aftery every breakdown I tried again, giving myself time. Now I can play most of the songs on TH-cam, since my first one was that hard. It was really some kind of obsession.
@ drawing, a good piece of advice I've heard (thanks pikat) is that you gotta get through all the bad drawings before you start getting to the good ones
Reminds me of my attempts at gamedev. I would struggle with stuff and most of the time I would not have time for it but when I had time I was way to tired to do anything. 5th attempt looking promising not gonna lie, I am actually learning phyton now.
I feel like when learning new hobbies it is important to not just simply jump into it after watching a few videos. Take the time to rationalize the videos you watched to draw out a roadmap for the skill. If you are passionate enough about it, and just as importantly patient enough with yourself, you can slowly master the foundational sub-skills for the hobby you are interested in. I had to go through what was depicted in this video many times to finally figure out exactly was needed of me to get into new hobbies.
Ngl this happened to me back in late 2022, when i got addicted to the instrument violin, so my parents bought one for me as a gift, and throughout, i learned quite fast in a year. But this just remains as a hobby for me, I’m not a pro, but i play from the heart.
I love your animation style! So cool seeing the multiple color effects here and there. I feel this video in so many ways. Did the same kinda thing with instruments. Nice to dip my toes back into music once in a while. Won’t get better if I don’t try.
I feel this. Learning to sing feels almost impossible to me as an adult. I think it's coz I'm an adult that I feel embarrassed for being a noob at it when a lot of singers and musicians started waaaaay younger and are masters at it by my age. I'm already good at drawing coz I started waaaaay younger and had my entire future ahead of me. Now that I'm older, anything new I wanna try feels like I'm too late. But, it's never too late. If I quit now, I'd look back with regret, at an age when I coulda been a pro had I kept it going. So, I won't give up. I love music too much to not give it my all. Love over fear
How old are you? I’ve started to take vocal lessons at 31 age and now I’m 33 and I finally can say that I at least can sing. It was a long process it took 2 years but I’ve tried to not compare myself to people from internet because there are tons of people who fake success and make it look easy
My issue is that nothing I ever do matters to me. I get mildly into something, eventually think “wow why am I doing this this isn’t rewarding or fulfilling” and then drop it.
I JUST had a 4-ish hour conversation about this vicious cycle with my step father. This hits a little too close to home. Even the titles of the videos at the beginning are similar in circumstance. The only difference is that I cycle through my interests over and over again...feels like two steps back, one step forward. And, I have SO many other things I wanna learn. Very nice work with excecuting this concept. I love the creative display of thoughts as video titles.
Hello, I am a composer. One day I was going to a Science Museum with my family and other old friends' families, it was a relatively good time. Then I saw it, a midi keyboard, absolutely was playing that thing. Then some interrupted me while one uncle was playing with me. It was a fun time :) Written on 8:27 PM (IST), 9 January 2025
ah man this video IS me. i have a bunch of tools and molds to make D&D resin dice and look at me now, haven't touched that shit for 5 months. i always come back to my ultimate hobby; drawing and reading
J’ai découvert cette chaine grâce à cette vidéo , au début j’avais cru que t’avais 5K Abonnés mais non , je me suis abonné et je te donne tout mon respect.
WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FOOTAGE OF ME anyways really cool animation, and i really like the effect you put when the guy feels inspired by the hobby great stuff man!
As someone who plays three instruments at school and own like 4 more that I don’t know how to play, just go for it. Learn one (I first learned violin) get a teacher, learn to read music then just do it because the world was made for you to live
I've recently attempted to pick up music as a hobby, and have been an artist for years. Even though I've been doodling and drawing as long as I've been able to hold a crayon, it still feels like this sometimes. You see someone who's so unbelievably good at their craft and it drives you to pursue it. The difference is how it ends. I never get it right of course, which is just as frustrating as it is true, but I keep pushing with it. I feel like a beginner in many of the things I draw. I used to draw only animals, and felt like a beginner trying to draw humans. Now it's the other way around. And although I struggle to keep going with the music, me knowing that I'm not going to get it right, and that there is SO MUCH you could POSSIBLY master with any form of art makes me feel better about it. I don't practice all the time but I practice when I feel like it, just like when I draw, even if it's all the time. I'm never going to be perfect, but I want to engage in something that makes me happy, create something that makes me happy even if it never truly reaches the standards in my mind. It's going to take time to get anywhere and that's okay. Keep trying at something you love. It's worth it.
I can play (not well) multiple instruments, I play them so I can write songs. I am very proud of this, because I think it is not easy. However, I can’t get anywhere in my drawing journey, which I truely love, besides music. I have picked up and gave up drawing multiple times. I feel very sad.
The absolute best way to learn piano is literally playing random keys forever untill you find cool sounds, learn to recreate them. This works for anything you want to learn ✨️Bulshit your way into understanding it✨️ Thats how our ansestors did it, when there where no tutorials then
That's how I kinda feel with drawing rn. I do a sketch, I hate it, I neglect the drawing tablet, I see something cool, I dust off the tablet, Rinse and repeat.
I remember when my parents had bought me a violin when I was somewhere between 6-8. I had been inspired by my favorite violinist at the time Lindsey Styrling and I really tried my heart at it with my lessons from a off the shelf music program on my laptop but in the end I never got any good with it. Then due to my father having a memory about me as a baby with a piano, my family now had a piano (specifically a yamaha) but this wasn't something I wanted but I tried anyway. But the problem was that I never asked to learn the piano so I quickly lost interest.
@@le9038 but program is not a human and couldn't see what will help you most at your current problems so I think it was hard to follow even if it was the best program at that time. Anyway I'm glad that now we could use internet and program to learn not just from each other personally
As a professional Pianist i can tell you Weed unlocked a patience in my brain to sit down and play by ear, thousands of stoney hours later with infallible finger motor memory i can truly play freely now, you just have to sit with it and improvise everyday lose urself in each tone each song
HELLO WHY WAS 1:14 SO GOOD + also the thumbnail honestly looks like the visual representation of "anybody can find love (except you.)" in a good wayy :3
One year ago, i got a piano (because of moonlight sonata 3rd movement and la campanella). I played piano almost every day and now I’m so grateful for the hours I spent on it and I think I’m going to learn and play my lovely piano for the rest of my life. The thing is just to be consistent.
This was me for my entire goddamn life, until recently when it finally hit me that I'm never going to get good enough to do the things I'm impressed by if I give up just for being a beginner, and that having a ton of things I know a little bit about is fun, but not satisfying. So I picked the hobby that impressed me most, that has been this kind of fixation on and off for years (oil painting), and I'm choosing to stick to it. No throwing it into the bin, no giving up, but I am allowed to put it down when I get frustrated. And now I've signed up for drawing classes so I can improve drawing faster, because I need that skill to get to my real goal. It sucks that it took me until my 30s to have the self confidence and internal commitment to myself to actually stick to one thing long term, even if it's hard and I don't understand it instantly. But better now than never! I've also had to learn to say "that hobby looks really cool and I really enjoy seeing it and knowing that it exists". It sounds stupid but it helps me remember that I'm allowed to just....enjoy witnessing cool stuff too. I don't have to DO all the things I think are neat.
I was able to play difficult, really nice sounding pieces within only 5 months of practicing playing the piano every single day. The progress and beautiful sounding pieces excited and motivated me to play more. It's tedious at first, but becomes more and more fun as time goes on. Then it changes into an addiction as you get good at it. Unfortunately, I developed an injury in my elbows and right shoulder. So I haven't touched the piano in a year despite the craving I developed to play it. Which hasn't gone away. Please, I urge people. Do these things while you still have able-bodied limbs. You already have a massive advantage over people like me who didnt take proper care of their bodies and let an injury occur. Please take advantage of your priceless limbs and make beautiful music. Be sure to take proper care of them at the same time.
@liyacarolyn6055 It was mostly due to overworking at the computer for an abusive employer, combined with gaming too much. I wanted to relieve my stress through video games, as I always have. But combining this with overworking at the computer was too much for my elbows. Even when I felt the pain, I continued to play due to depression. I think that playing video games through the pain was the key factor that caused me to get stuck with these chronic injuries. One night I played games until my arms seized up, and they have never healed since then. Been in pain every single day.
Pretty sure this got recommended to me because I've taken up piano recently and my entire TH-cam feed is piano covers or tips videos ahaha 😅 it's a grind no doubt, but nothing worth having is easy to obtain or else everybody would do it.
This is true for us autists, but that initial interest takes soo much longer to subside, and often that means we actually learn the thing we’re trying to successfully, it’s great until you realize that you have nobody to share all your passion with because everyone else quit so much earlier, and nobody wants to hear about the octave of E minor when they don’t really care at all (I never got into the piano though, and it’s been years since I played the cello, so I don’t remember everything about how music works) I personally got into something way more niche and now can both spit out guilty gear lore at stupid pace, and dominate you in any given match
This is me with literally any TTRPG that isn't modern D&D. I don't even want to play D&D, be interested in a game of literally anything else please god (especially if it's Mythras) ...Also Elder Scrolls lore. However far you think that rabbit hole goes, it goes further. Stuff you think of as deep iceberg shit feels almost surface-level at this point. Yes, I have been making a Mythras Elder Scrolls hack for years. No, it will probably never be used for anything.
me playing ukelele as a start to guitar and obsessing over it for 4 days and never again for literally months 😭 lol literally going to pick it up again and see if i remember the chords i learned :)
As someone who’s played piano since I was five, I laughed when I realized bro was like “ah yes, ima learn piano to play *moonlight sonata third movement* . *right now* “
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Seeing those who put in the hours preform is truly something, they make it look soo easy yet it's actually really hard
True. They deserve ALL the respect 🙏
Preforming is hard
These, my friend, are called practicing
As a pianist myself it’s definitely really hard but also really addicting and when you finally play that song it’s immensely satisfying
so much respect for animating the hands
As a pianist, i too respect
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cheap drawing tablet
as a pianist and artist, i hate hands
As a drummer, no
Yeah, I would need to make deal with dewil to draw them corectli
The hardest part is getting through the beginner phase.
so fucking true
It feels like I'm never through the beginning phase
@@reremu js gotta keep thuggin it out man
So true, it can take sooo much time and effort
I was told that the best way to get past it is to continue consuming content of said skill. Not too much tutorials as it'll overwhelm, but daily content of said skill to keep the interest burning.
Over the years I've learned, it's really no rush gaining skills.
Do hobbies when you enjoy them, focus and work hard when you can, and when you can't don't feel guilty for putting the hobby down.
Perhaps there'll come a season when you want to come back to it, perhaps not. Some seasons you're not in a position to focus on it, and there may come a season when unexpectedly it suddenly "clicks." It's okay to explore all the good the world has to offer in the meantime.
In my case, I've been circling the same hobbies for over 2 decades now. I used to feel awful about not being successful enough soon enough, especially when others did what I couldn't at younger ages. I had dreams of really "making money or something out of them, getting 'successful' or popular, etc." but over the years... I realized I only really wanted those things because other people online achieved those things. I like their work, their content, but it doesn't mean I have to take that path. And when I was forcing myself to was when I was the most miserable.
Now I'm working a job in a completely different field comfortably from home, livelihood secured, and so my hobbies are just that once again. Fun activities to do or learn more about. I do still have goals for each of these hobbies, perhaps some will be achieved and others not, but it's all at my own pace. :)
That's Amazing! Good luck with that!
@@finitedrawsstuff Thank you! And this animation was great, by the way! The disjointed hues were done so well, not to mention the perspective throughout!
well said!
There is a LOT of wisdom in this comment that I feel like people who haven't gone through the same experiences won't be able to understand, this is something I was and still struggle with to this day, I can't put into words how hard it is but you my friend expressed very well what many of us are going through.
I feel like this is the final piece of thought that I needed to read for the same issue I have. Thank you stranger, I really needed that :]
I love seeing the “chromatic abberation” show the dissonance between expectations and reality!! This subtle bit was EASILY readable in this animation, so I wanna give kudos!!
So that's what's that special visual effect I see every now and then is called! Thank you kind person on the Internet for casually mentioning the name of it! ^_^
that guy gotta need another 2 years learning that one single drum phrase
woah 2? that's being generous😅
@@finitedrawsstuff only if he put all his time for learning drums and watched that movie without feeling bored
The gifted kid syndrome be hitting hard man,
And a note
You won’t always get it right on the first try, I know and it’s alright to make mistakes even if that pesky voice in your head or someone says otherwise. you can be tired! Practice makes better not perfect. You won’t be perfect at anything but you can be really good at it, to the point others think you’re perfect.
So keep on going, whether it’s a dream, a hobby or something that a voice says it’s silly. Please don’t give in to the pressure, because only you can decide what’s good for you. Not even your parents
Anyways that’s it. Hope y’all have a great time!
Really like your profile picture
gifted kids are lie they just secretly learned it and they look like they skilled but most of the time dont even reach high levels because dont have motivation to do so
As i gifted kid that started piano as a hobby 5 years ago i must say that i rel- DONT relate at all ahahhahahahah i was immediately talented at the piano for some reason so get DUNKED ON i kept on playing and gotten better, just dont look at the other (non) achievements in my life.
Also even if i was very good at piano i was lazy af at first, its taken me years to slowly get the discipline to learn how to learn but since i already had a pleasure and motivation to play piano plus external factors that pushed me to keep playing, i stayed patient with it and kept improving albeit slowly
Thank you for this😭😭
I was forced to learn piano when I was 5 and it lasted till I was 14 when I finally had enough. I hated it from the start and till the end. still do.
I first started crocheting around 4 years ago. It was during the spring in 2020 and I was bored, so I decided to try it out. I only learned how to do a simple square using the single crochet stitch, but even then the squares were wonky (the rows getting longer then shorter making the sides of the square wavy with a bunch of holes in the middle). I tried making a bucket hat and a beanie, both of which didn’t turn out how I wanted to, so I kinda just quit for a while.
A year or so later, I was gifted a bunch of yarn and crochet hooks from a friend who learned that I tried crochet once and just had that stuff sitting in their attic. Since I had a lot more materials and was getting bored of my current hobby at the time, I decided to try and pick it up again. I went on TH-cam and looked up how to crochet animals. Most of the videos were of amigurumi (basically stuffed animals), but I found a simple one of a flat butterfly and thought it looked cute.
There were a lot of new crochet techniques in the video that I hadn’t learned before, but it was a beginner friendly video so the person showed what they were doing and what it was called very clearly. It took a couple (around 6) butterflies to make it without it looking lopsided, but when I finally got it to look how it did in the video, I was super excited!
So with my knowledge of the techniques I learned from the video, I decided to try other flat shapes such as a heart and a flower. And once I got comfortable with those, I decided I wanted to crochet a gift for a friend of mine and, since they loved cats, I looked up how to crochet a cat on YT. I found a beginner friendly amigurumi video and followed along with it. I was really proud of the finished product and my friend loved it too!
Since I knew I could crochet a cat, I started creating other things, most of which were amigurumi animals. But recently I decided to try making clothing. My first project was a hexagon cardigan (jacket) and I definitely learned what not to do when creating them, but it turned out fine overall. I made another hexagon cardigan and it turned out better than the first one. I’m now making a sweater and it’s going well so far.
I’m glad I decided to pick up crocheting again and that it’s going so well, but I understand what it’s like trying a new hobby and not picking it up again because I wasn’t immediately good at it. I probably would not like crochet as much as I do if I had tried a more difficult pattern rather than the butterfly.
I have had many other hobbies that I’ve tried and then quit a little while after, either due to frustration, a lack of interest, or a lack of time, but I’ve been able to find hobbies that I enjoy. Overall, trying out hobbies is fun to do, you’ll find some hobbies that you take to immediately, some that take a bit of trial and error, and others you’ll find don’t interest you as much.
For trying new hobbies, I would recommend learning the basics first (obviously), but once you’re able to remember a majority of the basics, challenge yourself with a new part of the hobby that has some new ideas/techniques in them but not an overwhelming amount. For example, playing the piano: learn the notes (or have some tape with the name of the notes on the corresponding key), practice beginner songs (Mary had a little lamb, hot cross buns, ect.), and once you’re able to play those songs without pausing between each chord/note, try other songs that are a bit more difficult (a bit faster paced, a less repetitive tune, more movement between notes, in a different time, ect.) while making sure it’s not too difficult.
Thank you so much for your comment and advice!! I have picked up the piano again and decided to take things slowly this time. Hopefully i'll stick with it till the end
@@finitedrawsstuff I’m glad it helped! Learning a hobby gradually always runs the risk of losing interest, but if you’re able to stick with it, you learn a lot of tricks that help if you want to experiment with the hobby (which, for me, is my favorite part)
That’s a lot of words
I have made the same mistake, except I only know how to make a stitch and I have no idea what a magic loop is and never picked up the hobby afterwards again.
**inhales,** *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-*
if someone who knits is a knitter, then are you perhaps... a crotch-eater?
That tutorial binge-watching section is way too accurate. I recently picked up animation, and I have probably watched a month and a half worth of content on posing, weight, and how to use the program. 😭
I literally went through this video's process for 3D animation, except I throw everything into the closet tagged "return to when I doubt everything else again yet inevitably thrown back in."
This is so real!!!
For all who wants to take up a hobby, there is a very big difference with learning how to do something and taking up a new hobby. I’m a digital/traditional artist who wants to learn how to make music or mastering to play piano and learn In filmography, but my mind doesn’t start with this high goal of learning to make a whole ass song, or a filming a whole ass movie.
You need to start with why you even have the tools/instrument for your hobby in the first place. Pick up a pencil and paper put the pencil on the paper and make a line and whatever shape I don’t care if it ain’t perfect looking, there you can draw now, have fun. Pick up your phone and take a selfie or take a photo of the sky, or record yourself doing whatever, there you can do photography and videography. Take your piano, play whatever notes I don’t care if it sounds dissonant af, there you might be a pianist now.
Maybe soon you’ll have fun drawing a bunch of stickmen you’ll even take the interest to try to make a face even it looks bad, maybe you’ll have fun taking photos that suddenly you’ll try to take photos and videos in such a way you’ll suddenly try putting a subject and background in a specific composition, even though your camera in your phone doesn’t have high dynamic range, maybe you’ll have fun playing the piano so much you’ll try to play the first few notes of “Megalovania” to troll your friends that you may even try to learn how to play chords.
To take up a tool/instrument is not that the tool was made for you to be good at it or impress your peers. It all started with just having fun at it for yourself and never taking it too seriously the first time, that is how you take up a hobby… Goodluck
When i start new hobbies or new games. I tend to dip my foot but not really spend much time. But as i get better i find myself spending more time since im drawn in to the cooler things im doing since i have enough skills to do more interesting things.
You explained my life in 100 seconds.
NOT THE ANIMATION OF THE HANDS ON THE PIANO ACCURATE ASF!!! PROPSS BROOO
The dude playing whiplash at the end was so accurate
randomly hearing caravan again activated an undiscovered part of my brain
Bruppo brimmi noop opppooooo
Bang bang zoop zop
I can definitely relate I have like 5 or more hobby’s and 3 of them I gave up entirely
Real
i’m very into crafty things and i have tried about 7 or 8 different things, gave up on like 4, then later gave up on like 2 more, gave up on another and now just go back and forth with school and my one hobby - crocheting
yea thanks for reading my hobby backstory
oh and i bake sometimes
Lowkey had small phases of like more than 70 different hobbies especially during the pandemic
@@dryelene me tooooooooo
learning stuff became a lot easier after I reminded myself on how to learn. all the studying and listening to people yap, that’s all a side activity because to learn you just kinda gotta do everything over and over and over and over and over again until your brain EATS the information and becomes the hobby, like how do you think you got so good at video games.
thissss bro, ive told heaps of people with art you just need to constantly be learning and looking at other peoples art and putting stuff into practice and just trying again and again and if you fail u THEN use a tutorial, instead of just info binging
@@_sandy_100% agree, most of the tutorials out there just exist as brainrot because the creator wants to make money. Just do it! Ideally do it together with others. Or pay for a teacher / course. I try to watch tutorials about 20% of the time and the rest is up to me to explore.
@ that's really good! im glad other people understand this vital thing and that you've found a balance
This is so true, it’s always easier to just be on my phone than fail over and over at my hobby
As a musician, this is exactly how I feel about drawing 😅 much respect for the animation, gonna have to go to my closet of stuff I never touch and pull out a notbook and start doodling
It's very hard to being consistent with a new hobby, very relatable.
This reminds me of myself wishing I could do more for getting how much I already am doing in my life and it's so cluttered and full
Up ‘til this point: 0:31 is what I haven’t experienced 😭
Realest video ever seen. Losing focus was really well captured by the person becoming doubled lines
I was worried that was going to happen after I invested hundreds into tools and supplies for making a couple fursuits, but I've been putting in 5-10 hours a week for the last 2 months and I'm still having fun with it. It has absorbed almost all of my free time.
part of the problem i had with piano is most of the beginner songs weren’t fun to play. The Tarantula Dance ended up becoming my favorite out of the book my instructor made me use and that became the reason i stayed on it at the time
Ah yes I love this ADHD kinda s. hit when I get interested in something for a day/week/month and then lose the interest completely.
I've had dozens of hobbies with reoccurring interest, but eventually left with nothing, but depression and smth like learned helplessness. Now if I catch myself getting interested in something - I stop myself, knowing how painful it will be to lose interest. I'm grey now.
Fireworks are short-lived, but they make the most spectacular display on the way out. Embrace that everything is temporary and enjoy making those beautiful sparks.
The analogy of a solitary confinement cell is apt.
shiny object syndrome be like
edit: 300 likes? Damn
Bruh r/Beatmetoit
thanks to you I realize why I keep dropping my animation projects 💀
What? Are humans collecting the comments now? I would be thankful if someone liked my animations, not some comments that I randomly drop everywhere... that's funny 😂
This is so underrated! This is amazing!!!
I totally relate to this, I want to try everything but I don't have enough motivation to actually do it lol.
I swear if you get the "beginner phase try hardiness" even as a decently knowledge person, you're untouchable
0:10 witnessing the raw talent of valentina lisitsa is enough to get anyone to want to learn piano
I was drawing for 2 years and never felt like I understood what I was doing, or what I wanted from it. My improvement was minimal. I always found myself wanting to do anything other than draw because of my lack of creativity and self doubt. I always felt like I should have been doing better than I was. Eventually I gave up, and stopping made me happier, though I still feel like it's something I want to do. I dunno if I'll ever revisit it.
You just perfectly described how I feel about my hobbies. I never enjoy them, and I do them with the thought that when I get good THEN I'll start to enjoy the hobby. I think the real talent is being able to enjoy something without being good at it. Unfortunately that's never happened with me.
I feel the same exact way with drawing. I just want the end result I absolutely despise the process. I just want to be able to put the picture in my head exactly how I want it on the paper or improve on it as I’m drawing, not just fuck everything up!
I've always had such a complicated relationship with art, i fixed it by quitting after a lot of years and switchting to guitar, it jusy clicked immediatly, it felt right and even if i was bad i could still enjoy it. I went like "damn so that's what a hobby is supposed to feel like"
help the piano posture is killing me-
I know theres a lot of people commenting about theres stories of starting, committing and sticking with hobbies with advice.
I will only say one thing. From my experience the main obstacle to learning is the frustration and the feeling of feeling stupid and angry of “why can’t I get this right”.
I saw the TED talk “The First 20 Hours” and Im always reminded of the single phrase when I want to quit: “The major barrier to skill acquisition is NOT intellectual, it IS emotional” and it is reaalllllllly really true.
I think learning the neuroscience behind learning also really helps. I recommend Andrew Huberman’s video on learning because I learn frustration is actually our body flooding ourselves with neurochemicals to alarm “YOURE NOT DOING IT RIGHT YOU DINGUS” and wierdly enough thats when the most effective learning happens you just got to push through it in addition to other things. Also apparently you can attach dopamine to frustration.
I saw this Hubeman video some time ago and already forget. Thanks for reminder!
I remember an artist saying that it's important to figure out if an idea is genuinely something you want to make, vs something that would be cool if it existed. That way you can put focus on the ideas that you wanna work on while not chasing every stray idea and getting burnt out in the process.
This was so cool :,) the hand and arm animations were insane, and 3D aesthetic with the different hues is really cool. Finding what hobbies click and which ones don’t isn’t too scary, but what is is feeling anxiety, fear, and lack of motivation for the things you know you’re passionate about. Wether it’s a sport, an instrument, or a brush or pen, that initial overwhelming feeling in your hands of being terrified to make a mistake is real. But sometimes you just gotta start, and accept that yeah you’re gonna suck at first, because everyone does, and if they say they didn’t they’re lying. It’s all about not giving up, and most importantly having fun that’s key
my joy as a pianist when the playing is animated ACCURATELY 🤩 great work!! hopefully it doesn’t live in the “never touch again” closet forever
i was listening to this podcast and they said how things like this, you're creating the habit of always wanting more, and so when you work hard to find something and do so much to master it, when you eventually become top grade and really good at it, you wont be happy. in that way, you'll never really be satisfied with what you do.
(the podcast is on spotify and probably other platforms, its Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee, the episodes are weekly and give rlly interesting perspectives. one of the ones that got me looking into him was this really old doctor talking about death (? i think, smth like that), super interesting)
all my talents (art, piano, cooking, uhhh swimming) just randomly became something when i got bored and decided to learn
YOU. YOU ANIMATED MOONLIGHT SONATA WITH ALL THE RIGHT NOTES. I ALREADY LOVE THIS +1 SUB YAY
also if you’re really learning piano irl than please remember that there’s definitely a learning curve!! it all clicks eventually :) I have a low attention span so I just usually do 20 mins a day with breaks on the weekends. It works for me! :3
For me it was throwing piano in "things I will never touch again", but then touch it again one year after. Guys, take a break if you are starting to feel irritated from your hobby, even if it's a long one. It's worth it if you eventually regain the interest, now with genuine interest in the process, not in just finishing results.
This is literally me. I bought a digital piano after I came across a video of Spider Dance on piano after so many years finished the game. Started with songs for beginners but gave up quickly. That was not what I wanted. Then I started to learn THAT song, though I knew it's nearly impossible. It was hard, but aftery every breakdown I tried again, giving myself time. Now I can play most of the songs on TH-cam, since my first one was that hard.
It was really some kind of obsession.
That’s so cool! I’m also highly motivated to learn piano to play undertale music
@ drawing, a good piece of advice I've heard (thanks pikat) is that you gotta get through all the bad drawings before you start getting to the good ones
True, confirm as a person who had a lot of hobbies, but now at 19 I only have a guitar (music in general, since I work as a tutor) and chess.
Reminds me of my attempts at gamedev. I would struggle with stuff and most of the time I would not have time for it but when I had time I was way to tired to do anything.
5th attempt looking promising not gonna lie, I am actually learning phyton now.
I feel like when learning new hobbies it is important to not just simply jump into it after watching a few videos. Take the time to rationalize the videos you watched to draw out a roadmap for the skill. If you are passionate enough about it, and just as importantly patient enough with yourself, you can slowly master the foundational sub-skills for the hobby you are interested in.
I had to go through what was depicted in this video many times to finally figure out exactly was needed of me to get into new hobbies.
That's why reading books is the purest hobby
Even reading and understanding books is a skill
@@foxygrin of course thats why its in school and its very difficult
Not really, I hate it when there's so many words in a page
@@mrfanpl Then u don't deserve to be a human. Try to read some books.
Resisting the urge to buy the thing is the important part. I usually say to myself I'm buying this on the next month. It works every time 😂
Ngl this happened to me back in late 2022, when i got addicted to the instrument violin, so my parents bought one for me as a gift, and throughout, i learned quite fast in a year. But this just remains as a hobby for me, I’m not a pro, but i play from the heart.
Oh look, it’s me and my life when it comes to musical instruments…
the toxic trait of thinking "i can do that, it looks so easy!" and then when you actually do it, you realize that it is, in fact, not "easy"
I feel called out when the whiplash music started
I love your animation style! So cool seeing the multiple color effects here and there. I feel this video in so many ways. Did the same kinda thing with instruments. Nice to dip my toes back into music once in a while. Won’t get better if I don’t try.
Me trying to find a way to stop the crushing feeling of inadequacy.
I feel this. Learning to sing feels almost impossible to me as an adult. I think it's coz I'm an adult that I feel embarrassed for being a noob at it when a lot of singers and musicians started waaaaay younger and are masters at it by my age. I'm already good at drawing coz I started waaaaay younger and had my entire future ahead of me. Now that I'm older, anything new I wanna try feels like I'm too late. But, it's never too late. If I quit now, I'd look back with regret, at an age when I coulda been a pro had I kept it going. So, I won't give up. I love music too much to not give it my all. Love over fear
How old are you? I’ve started to take vocal lessons at 31 age and now I’m 33 and I finally can say that I at least can sing. It was a long process it took 2 years but I’ve tried to not compare myself to people from internet because there are tons of people who fake success and make it look easy
@ That’s awesome! I’m 29, and wish to take vocal/singing lessons as well. And yeah comparing oneself to others is a mind killer for sure.
You animated Moonlight Sonata right that’s better than 80% of animation studios
My issue is that nothing I ever do matters to me. I get mildly into something, eventually think “wow why am I doing this this isn’t rewarding or fulfilling” and then drop it.
I JUST had a 4-ish hour conversation about this vicious cycle with my step father. This hits a little too close to home. Even the titles of the videos at the beginning are similar in circumstance. The only difference is that I cycle through my interests over and over again...feels like two steps back, one step forward. And, I have SO many other things I wanna learn.
Very nice work with excecuting this concept. I love the creative display of thoughts as video titles.
That animation is like I'm looking at myself from a third person view
Hello, I am a composer. One day I was going to a Science Museum with my family and other old friends' families, it was a relatively good time. Then I saw it, a midi keyboard, absolutely was playing that thing. Then some interrupted me while one uncle was playing with me. It was a fun time :)
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you captured it really well, i have a irritating disdain how things are like this
>buys cheap piano
>starts off by learning BACH
>wants to try drums
>gonna start off by tryna play a piece written TO BE HARD
ah man this video IS me. i have a bunch of tools and molds to make D&D resin dice and look at me now, haven't touched that shit for 5 months. i always come back to my ultimate hobby; drawing and reading
J’ai découvert cette chaine grâce à cette vidéo , au début j’avais cru que t’avais 5K Abonnés mais non , je me suis abonné et je te donne tout mon respect.
Literally bought a practice pad after watching Whiplash... I don't even have money for a drumkit 😭
WHERE DID YOU GET THIS FOOTAGE OF ME
anyways really cool animation, and i really like the effect you put when the guy feels inspired by the hobby
great stuff man!
hella relatable when you're stuck in your comfort zone and only get dopamine from mobile phones and video games
So true, big tip is to go to an actual teacher! The human interaction makes it way more fun and manageable🥰
Real, especially if you've been practicing before but abandoned it cause of life circumstances
Thank you for animating the hands correctly
His mistake was it that he wanted to git gud. Giting gud ruins hobbies.
As someone who plays three instruments at school and own like 4 more that I don’t know how to play, just go for it. Learn one (I first learned violin) get a teacher, learn to read music then just do it because the world was made for you to live
Ending the vid on *that* fucking solo is just icing on the cake, I loved that movie!
I've recently attempted to pick up music as a hobby, and have been an artist for years. Even though I've been doodling and drawing as long as I've been able to hold a crayon, it still feels like this sometimes. You see someone who's so unbelievably good at their craft and it drives you to pursue it. The difference is how it ends. I never get it right of course, which is just as frustrating as it is true, but I keep pushing with it. I feel like a beginner in many of the things I draw. I used to draw only animals, and felt like a beginner trying to draw humans. Now it's the other way around. And although I struggle to keep going with the music, me knowing that I'm not going to get it right, and that there is SO MUCH you could POSSIBLY master with any form of art makes me feel better about it. I don't practice all the time but I practice when I feel like it, just like when I draw, even if it's all the time. I'm never going to be perfect, but I want to engage in something that makes me happy, create something that makes me happy even if it never truly reaches the standards in my mind. It's going to take time to get anywhere and that's okay. Keep trying at something you love. It's worth it.
Not the whiplash drums 😭😭😭
this is literally the story of my life.
AND I LOVE YOUR ANIMATION WHAT-
That last part is just me, I started to try drumming because my favorite band had an amazing drum part
I can play (not well) multiple instruments, I play them so I can write songs. I am very proud of this, because I think it is not easy. However, I can’t get anywhere in my drawing journey, which I truely love, besides music. I have picked up and gave up drawing multiple times. I feel very sad.
The absolute best way to learn piano is literally playing random keys forever untill you find cool sounds, learn to recreate them. This works for anything you want to learn
✨️Bulshit your way into understanding it✨️
Thats how our ansestors did it, when there where no tutorials then
That's how I kinda feel with drawing rn. I do a sketch, I hate it, I neglect the drawing tablet, I see something cool, I dust off the tablet, Rinse and repeat.
I remember when my parents had bought me a violin when I was somewhere between 6-8. I had been inspired by my favorite violinist at the time Lindsey Styrling and I really tried my heart at it with my lessons from a off the shelf music program on my laptop but in the end I never got any good with it.
Then due to my father having a memory about me as a baby with a piano, my family now had a piano (specifically a yamaha) but this wasn't something I wanted but I tried anyway. But the problem was that I never asked to learn the piano so I quickly lost interest.
I couldn’t imagine how hard it is to try to learn violin without good teacher
@@liyacarolyn6055 My teacher was a Computer program made to run on Windows XP, 2000 and 98.
@@le9038 but program is not a human and couldn't see what will help you most at your current problems so I think it was hard to follow even if it was the best program at that time. Anyway I'm glad that now we could use internet and program to learn not just from each other personally
As a professional Pianist i can tell you Weed unlocked a patience in my brain to sit down and play by ear, thousands of stoney hours later with infallible finger motor memory i can truly play freely now, you just have to sit with it and improvise everyday lose urself in each tone each song
HELLO WHY WAS 1:14 SO GOOD
+ also the thumbnail honestly looks like the visual representation of "anybody can find love (except you.)" in a good wayy :3
Literally what got me into starting.
I once tried to draw as a hobby and i was about of say "KYS" to myself cuz i messed up a lot
I love that this video was recommended to me now, that I'm planning to buy a digital piano next week lmao
learning instruments are hard, took me 4 years to learn how to play a song perfectly on drums
One year ago, i got a piano (because of moonlight sonata 3rd movement and la campanella).
I played piano almost every day and now I’m so grateful for the hours I spent on it and I think I’m going to learn and play my lovely piano for the rest of my life.
The thing is just to be consistent.
This was me for my entire goddamn life, until recently when it finally hit me that I'm never going to get good enough to do the things I'm impressed by if I give up just for being a beginner, and that having a ton of things I know a little bit about is fun, but not satisfying. So I picked the hobby that impressed me most, that has been this kind of fixation on and off for years (oil painting), and I'm choosing to stick to it. No throwing it into the bin, no giving up, but I am allowed to put it down when I get frustrated. And now I've signed up for drawing classes so I can improve drawing faster, because I need that skill to get to my real goal.
It sucks that it took me until my 30s to have the self confidence and internal commitment to myself to actually stick to one thing long term, even if it's hard and I don't understand it instantly. But better now than never!
I've also had to learn to say "that hobby looks really cool and I really enjoy seeing it and knowing that it exists". It sounds stupid but it helps me remember that I'm allowed to just....enjoy witnessing cool stuff too. I don't have to DO all the things I think are neat.
one of the most vital video what i've seen in my entire life
I was able to play difficult, really nice sounding pieces within only 5 months of practicing playing the piano every single day. The progress and beautiful sounding pieces excited and motivated me to play more. It's tedious at first, but becomes more and more fun as time goes on. Then it changes into an addiction as you get good at it.
Unfortunately, I developed an injury in my elbows and right shoulder. So I haven't touched the piano in a year despite the craving I developed to play it. Which hasn't gone away.
Please, I urge people. Do these things while you still have able-bodied limbs. You already have a massive advantage over people like me who didnt take proper care of their bodies and let an injury occur. Please take advantage of your priceless limbs and make beautiful music. Be sure to take proper care of them at the same time.
Did you get injury from bad technique or it’s unrelated to piano?
@liyacarolyn6055 It was mostly due to overworking at the computer for an abusive employer, combined with gaming too much.
I wanted to relieve my stress through video games, as I always have. But combining this with overworking at the computer was too much for my elbows.
Even when I felt the pain, I continued to play due to depression. I think that playing video games through the pain was the key factor that caused me to get stuck with these chronic injuries. One night I played games until my arms seized up, and they have never healed since then. Been in pain every single day.
@ oh God, I'm really sorry for you! I hope it will heal eventually
Pretty sure this got recommended to me because I've taken up piano recently and my entire TH-cam feed is piano covers or tips videos ahaha 😅 it's a grind no doubt, but nothing worth having is easy to obtain or else everybody would do it.
This is true for us autists, but that initial interest takes soo much longer to subside, and often that means we actually learn the thing we’re trying to successfully, it’s great until you realize that you have nobody to share all your passion with because everyone else quit so much earlier, and nobody wants to hear about the octave of E minor when they don’t really care at all (I never got into the piano though, and it’s been years since I played the cello, so I don’t remember everything about how music works) I personally got into something way more niche and now can both spit out guilty gear lore at stupid pace, and dominate you in any given match
i put 200 hours into factorio in a single month and i haven't really touched it since, i can confirm the sustained interest
This is me with literally any TTRPG that isn't modern D&D. I don't even want to play D&D, be interested in a game of literally anything else please god (especially if it's Mythras)
...Also Elder Scrolls lore. However far you think that rabbit hole goes, it goes further. Stuff you think of as deep iceberg shit feels almost surface-level at this point.
Yes, I have been making a Mythras Elder Scrolls hack for years. No, it will probably never be used for anything.
me playing ukelele as a start to guitar and obsessing over it for 4 days and never again for literally months 😭 lol
literally going to pick it up again and see if i remember the chords i learned :)
im so happy that i completed musical school and can play metal on piano
Good thing I played it as a kid. When I restarted 20 years later 2 weeks was enough to reach my previous (quite low) level.
This is so true !! I tried to learn piano and was so confused at first like where do I even begin
As someone who’s played piano since I was five, I laughed when I realized bro was like “ah yes, ima learn piano to play *moonlight sonata third movement* . *right now* “
you made this, a wonderful animation. that's something to be proud of.
Because of this video I will try to find a new hobby or 2, I will try to remember this and keep updating if I can