Watch This If You Feel Like a Fake Musician
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- I know, I know - you feel like you are a fake musician - an imposter. But I’m here to tell you that you are not a fake musician and I want to let you know why… Support me by using this affiliate link: sweetwater.sjv.io/KjXzQ7
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I'm almost 55 and I spent so much time trying to sound like someone else. It took me DECADES to be ok with sounding like me. I thought that because I didn't sound like (fill in the blank) there was something wrong with me. Though a bit late, I want to become the best version of "me" that I can and let the rest go. Thank you, Bill, for a much needed reminder. 🙏
Always appreciate your uplifting pep talks. They are an enormous blessing.
I've got a different 'problem'. I often feel like the music landscape is so saturated that if I'd make some music, It would just disappear into the mass. Maybe a little bit pessimistic, but I guess I'll just have to try. One day...
I hear you, I feel my music gets lost in an ocean of music. I finally learned to just keep creating and sharing it.
Agreed that it is a challenge. The key is to build an audience for your music. Here's a playlist I put together a bit that discusses different strategies for doing so: th-cam.com/play/PLseB5HzFJKVwe_tisP-H7O_4J-uqNqfhs.html
My strategy to combat this is to make music for myself. I do it because I like what I'm making and that keeps me going. I don't have any ambitions of creating a hit or anything, but I enjoy my music even if other people don't notice or care. If you plan to make a career out of it, then my strategy probably won't get you far.
I just have to make music regardless of listeners. It is how I regulate myself. I take control of the wiggly air and sometimes it's the only thing i have control over.
@@cactoidpinata So true. I've been a basement musician for 45 years and we all get our inspiration from others. Never fear that you aren't valued, I once saw a young man, at an open stage, who used a magnetic pickup on a nylon string guitar who couldn't be heard but his spirit for playing shone through, that was inspiring. Keep up the good work Bill.
Thanks for the words of inspiration. I have been playing guitar since 1977. Having playing a bunch of bands here in the detroit area I was pretty comfortable with my guitar skills. Until I suffered a stroke in 2015 which robbed me of my coordination and ability to have any sense of rhythm. I could barely hold a pick. I tried to relearn what I had lost but I’ve never recovered my sense of rhythm. I was very depressed until I discovered your channel in 2020. It literally changed my life. I found new artistic expression in ambient music. Today I play mostly for my self but I have recorded some stuff and occasionally play ambient music for yoga classes and meditation retreats. I still feel self conscious and unsure of myself but I trust what I am doing and continue to discover new ways to express myself.
Thank you, Bill! There are a lot of us who needed so much simply to hear a kind voice tonight. So so much. Just to hear someone kind. 😌💜
I'm chiming in where it's not needed, but I can't resist. Dude, you're a mystic wolf in a musician's sheep suit. And I mean that as a compliment.
Your point is as valid as it can be, and echoed by others. Robby Krieger says you'll never play someone else's stuff as well as you play your own. Frank Zappa said all he ever wanted was a good performance and a good recording and if anybody else liked it, swell. Jeff Beck wondered why he would even want to sound like anyone else.
Me, I think the short cut to originality is simply to be yourself. As you say, there's only one of you. Thank you for your work and your sharing. You satisfy a great need.
I was wondering around and just get caught by this musician. What an extraordinarily person!
Thank you and god bless you
I sometimes feel fake when I "repair" mistakes in my live recordings in my editing software. lol
Just remember that Eddie Van Halen and Jimmy Page did punch-in edits on tape back in the day.
The 'Imposter Syndrome' I know it well and have suffered with it for all my musical career. It is difficult to shake because it is something deep and at my core. But your wise words hold true we are all unique and individual. Those are the things to take with us on our journey. A timely reminder.
Thank you, Sir. I think a lot of people needed to hear this, including myself. Peace and Blessings to you and yours!
Thank you so much! I've actually been struggling with this lately. I'm almost humble to a fault. When anyone I play for says I'm a great musician, I just say I'm not that great on a technical level, I just know my way around the neck, chords, a moderate amount of theory, et al. I forget sometimes that not everyone who picks up the guitar learns to the same degree. I forget that I'm pretty advanced in my own ways. Not everyone can be a shredmaster.I needed to hear this. Thank you so much!
Bill, thank you for this. I'm a worship pastor and, believe me, imposter syndrome is real on so many levels. "Am I a good enough musician? Am I a good enough leader? I'm not worthy to fill this role." Those thoughts are difficult to wrestle. I love what you've said here - it's a really good reminder of how we are so much more than the product we produce and (going a step deeper) WHY we create. As you said, we are valued and uniquely gifted to serve in our own way. Spot on brother. Might even share this video with my team. God bless. 🙏
These are precious and important insights, Bill. Thanks! I do weekly ambient livestream stuff which no one listens to, but that’s okay. With my MS it’s easy to discourage myself so my approach is now „Why the heck not?“ If anyone wants to listen to some ambient stuff from me, I’d love to communicate with others and nerd out about music and guitar.
There are no rules to our creativity and how we express ourselves. Well said.
I really enjoyed the sonic textures you were creating with the E-bow.
I'm really happy seeing you Sir after those few years still growing, huge appreciation. :)
Thank you Bill, you are such a wonderfull being, love you Sir!
Thanks for this much needed self-esteem boost.
I couldn’t agree more about how beautifully optimistic you are describing everyone’s musical gifts.
Thanks for this video GSus loves you
Thank you Bill!
Thank you Bill. Very encouraging.
My own view is that, if you enjoy making your music then that’s great. If someone else enjoys you making your music, there is nothing like it. It is amazing.
I think I’ve always played simply for the love of music. I never thought I would release any of my own music. One day, I told myself that with 8 billion people on this planet, surely someone out there will like what I do. Since then, I’ve released my own music. It probably will never be popular, but it’s mine, and I love what I do. Part of my philosophy about musicians is that no one musician is “better” than another, we all just play differently. I enjoy playing with any musician, and I enjoy talking music with other musicians. I’ve met several “famous” musicians, and I came to realize that they are regular people, just like me, only they have really cool jobs. Still, one can suffer from imposter syndrome, but as you said, you’re unique, and nobody does what you do the way you do it. If you love to play an instrument, it doesn’t matter if you’re technically gifted, but you make a sound that brings you joy, then you are a musician.
Love the positive message
Thank you
….and nice playing!
Music Business is corrupt,Not Music.Grateful for being a musician,Love your videos sir.❤❤❤
Great inspiration for any musician to be creative and unique. Thanks Bill and may God continue to bless you over the next year 🙏
Such a great message you have sent here. Well done. Thank you for stating what so many need to hear ... including myself. Thanks and blessings.
Love ya, Bill. A solid message. Thank you.
What a great message Bill! Been a subscriber both here and Bandcamp for a few years now. Enjoy your music and have most definitely learned some things from you that influence my playing. I gave up trying to sound like anyone else or learn other peoples songs a few years ago. I am 63 and played guitar most of my life. But only in the last five years have I taken it to another level. I quit worrying about other people and especially comments made in my youth, and got serious. I mostly improv and have taken up several other instruments. At 63, I will never become great at them all, but I don't care. I love to play them and I try to have fun. In fact, I have been posting a lot of videos on my own TH-cam channel featuring some of these instruments and would invite you to check some of them out when you have some time. Thank you for sharing your music, knowledge and a beautifully positive message with us. Many blessings to you Bill and look forward to future music and videos.
Great one! Needed to hear this again. Thank you
Thanks, Bill. I think a lot of us needed to hear that.
I appreciate this message. I needed to hear this. Really love the channel including your gear videos & tutorials. Keep it coming:)
I needed to hear that. Thanks Bill :)
Bill so great to hear your uplifting chats!
I have enjoyed your guitar playing a lot, but I also love the fact that you seem like such a nice guy, someone I'd enjoy just having a coffee and talking creativity with.
Thank you for this, so eloquently delivered with a lot of heart.
Thanks Bill. Listening to you give an uplifting message over ambient guitar is soothing.
I appreciate this message
Cool video man! The quicker you can quit worrying about comparing yourself to every other awesome guitarist out there the quicker you can just embrace your own style. I have basicly overcome this years ago but I really like your videos anyways! Thanks for being so positive in a crazy ugly world!
I discovered COO years and years ago, and it isn't an exaggeration to say that I would never have found myself as a musician without you. It was very uncomfortable and stressful trying to be in bands and conform to other people's idea of genre. I can to a limited degree play classical guitar, jazz (very badly), various types of rock, and metal, but I never really fit in and felt like a failure. I wrote really "weird" music, I soloed "wrong" and just never could do what was expected. I could only really "hear myself" in film and television scores, video game music, avant-garde music, and soundscapes. It was you and your playing that enlightened me that I was actually an ambient musician. I was a fan of a lot of your influences (Fripp, Eno) but it was you who introduced me to their ambient works. I'm an ambient multi-instrumentalist (guitars, barri's, bass, and keyboards) with psychedelic/space rock, shoegaze, and doom drone influences. It was very much a "I'm not a deformed duck, I'm a flamingo!" moment. You're a guitar hero to me, along with Stephen O'Malley, and Tony Iommi.
Love your gear videos, now I love your storytelling with ambient guitar videos, as well ❤
You really got me with this one, because I'm mostly self taught, play by ear, and don't easily read music.
Though in some respects it's self defeating, I determined at an early age, that music should come from inside me, and not from a sheet of music, or rules, written by someone else.
So I quit my piano lessons 😮
Despite that, I joined a Rock band, and played bass for 20 years.
The reason that worked is because I liked the songs, and had lots of leeway to improvise.
Years later, I played guitar, drums, and keyboards in coffee shops. Good times.
Now at 63, I play keyboards semipro, for two Grateful Dead cover bands, and pickup jobs.
And no matter how much praise I receive from the audience, and bandmates, I still sometimes wonder if I am a "Fake Musician", because I'm not well schooled in music theory, and reading.
It's just not how my brain works.
Well whatever else I am, I sure am well seasoned, LOL
Whenever you doubt yourself, think of someone (can be yourself) you reached with your art/music.
Think of joy you brought into their life, picture that moment, and soldier on.
In the end, I am glad I did things my way, because there is no substitute, for playing from your own heart.
Happy Trails to all my fellow creatives, as you follow your muses 🎸🎹🎶🌎☮❤
Thanks man. ❤
Inspirational words … and music ❤
You, sir, are a modern day guitar hero.
Thx. I needed to hear this. I've been feeling this lately. I've hit a place of stagnation. Other people like what I do, but I feel like I've already heard everything I can do. Nothing I do surprises me anymore. It's just more of the same. I'm working on breaking myself out of the rut I'm in.
great message 👍 👍
Thank you 🙏
Thank you.... just that!!!
Thanks much! Play On.....
Well Said Bill! Don't listen to the comments section to evaluate whether or not you a re a musician. Do your best to communicate what is on your heart/mind. If people don't like it, they don't have to listen.
Thank you for such kind and encouraging words. I recently purchased an ebow and will try to learn to use it. Have a blessed day.
Great to hear about the EBow! If you have not seen it, I did a tutorial on how I use it: th-cam.com/video/VmugDwAKZ-o/w-d-xo.html
@@chordsoforion Thanks. I will watch it.
@@chordsoforion Thanks from me too, My EBow is on the way, I'll watch in anticipation of it's arrival. I always enjoy experimenting with new things 🙂
Bill, you are the Son of Encouragement, and I love you.
Dear Mr. Vencil, you have the right judgment and view of man as an individual being and his ability to create music. I'm just a guitar amateur though. moreover, of dubious quality, but I like to be inspired by your music (and approach to it) + several other colleagues from the YT channel. I probably won't see much improvement (even considering my age), but I am very happy with my musical attempts. Thank you for the video and greetings. Pavel CZ.
And greetings to you!!
I don't know how you knew that today I really needed to hear this.
Thank you I feel a little bit better. Peace be with.
If I feel bad, I grab one of my guitars and start playing, just for me and after a while, the bad thoughts are gone and I feel better. Musik is my medicine that I need. I think music is an universe, it's all around us and it was always around us and we guitarists are just the recipients of the impulses and the vibrations and interpret what we feel and convert it into music that we can hear.... 🙃🤘
Hi Bill. I'm 53, going into the studio for the first time in December. I've been playing for almost 40 years at this point. I have a couple friends who are world class, think Al DiMeola and Tommy Emmanual levels. I have such difficulty not comparing myself to them and thinking that I'm not good enough. I don't do the same kind of music they do but I still find myself doubting who I am musically.
This was exactly the video I needed today. I found myself in tears halfway through it. It was such a release to hear these words. Thanks for what you do Bill. :)
You are ambient guitar Mr. Rogers and that is meant as a genuine compliment. Love your videos!
Thanks so much for the kind words and the support!
It's one thing to understand what you're saying on a cerebral level, but to really feel it is very difficult. I know my voice is unique, etc. but I can't imagine anyone wanting to hear it. I don't know, it's a struggle for me, but I'll keep filling my hard drive with recordings for now, maybe someday I'll find a couple that I like enough to put out there.
Many thanks Bill, I have always felt a fake musician. Today a little less
thank you
I WISH I COULD SIT DOWN AND HAVE A CUP OF COFFIE AND TALK...THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO BILL
Yep, that's why I keep making music even when everyone tells me I'm bad at it. =)
Irl, I'm a singer-songwriter and have been in gigging bands. Somehow, it never feels like I've even done anything.
Bill, you are a good dude. Thank you.
Thanks....
Good one Bill. You are right on. You are almost comfortable on camera these days. You are real, musically and humanly (is that a real word?).. Keep up your transmissions. Andy.
Is it enough so, to truly make it as a career musician? Possibly not, but still entirely valid. And worth your effort.
Orion’s philosophical AMSR! I never get imposter syndrome, but I often feel I’m just not good enough (“I suck!”), but, used well, that can drive me to work harder and suck less. 😳
WISE WORDS.👍🏻
Nice talk and your true observations = all very true. One's creativity in the moment is real whatever it is. And yes I get the "flaws of the culture" thing and the money corrupt star who lost his creativity and passion to indulge in his own soul destruction.
And what's the false standard pushed as to what is art. Pathetic world.
I enjoy your knowledge and demonstration of great equipment and how you use it. Despite the fact that I don't do ambient. Can't afford equipment. But I enjoy effects a lot.
I recently found this channel. I have always made music I like. I am a very non-emotional person so if anyone dislikes it, I don’t really care. I like it, that’s why I made it.
Hi Bill, so your guitar is a baritone tuned a tone and half flat Ab Db Gb Cb Eb Ab ? With both capos on I hear Bb F Bb Eb F Bb.
Yeah i hear its Bb id say he is detuned then capoed up a bit
@@leapsplashafrog yes I’ve written down the actual notes
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well said 😎
" What's the best way to become a millionaire as a guitar player? " " it's more likely if you start as a billionaire "
Sounds very low down in Bb ?
Correct, although I think of it as C#.
Why the strap have the sun from the uruguayan flag?
I actually find I make more music by insisting I'm NOT a musician at all. Somehow having no ego invested and tricking myself into thinking it's not even a thing.. works?
See also: Brian Eno
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I have been writing and releasing music for 30 years, some of it heard and played to 1000s some never even received one view. The real question is do you play or make music for others or for yourself? Both is a good answer but try not get to caught up on it...or it looses it purpose. 😊
Imposter syndrome happens to tons of ppl! Academics/ highly trained individuals etc etc. it’s maybe just some kind of normal lucid account of how weird it is to be a human against careers and capitalist construction. Imposter syndrome is way better than arrogance and narcissism. It’s honest bc I mean identity is surreal and philosophical bc under the job titles and professionalism, we’re all still animals. Just know the paradox exists and it’s ok. It’s ok to question. This is better than perfectionism which will never be real or feel right.
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Bill, why do you know me?
LOL During the intro, I thought you were gonna say, "You're not fake musician. You're not an imposter. You just suck -- that's all."
Thanks for the affirmations Bill, but what's that thing you're strumming your guitar with, and why isn't it in your gear list? 😂
Thanks for point that out! It is a Heet Sound EBow. Now in the gear list. :-)
Thanks, now I can feel fully affirmed@@chordsoforion😉Fantastic video btw
I'm definitely not a musician. I make noise on an instrument. Almost 30 now.
Yay me first!
Fake it til you make it!
it was all helpful until the end, then you told me i can become a real musician if i watch your playlist? i got a bit confused there.
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making music is first and foremost a spiritual practice. It's a form of prayer. People get so caught up in the worldly aspects of making music that they forget what the true purpose of it is; to bring us closer to God.