Programming & playing an instrument
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I started programming with 12 on the good old C64. Started then playing guitar with 17, now having more than 20 years of programming and nearly 20 of playing guitar I still feel that playing Bach is like writing a good program - with the slightly difference that it happens in realtime :-). Which is also true when playing something from Randy Rhoads or Al Di Meola etc. Is there anyone feels the same? da5id I decided to be happy, it is excellent for one's health. (Voltaire)
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I started programming with 12 on the good old C64. Started then playing guitar with 17, now having more than 20 years of programming and nearly 20 of playing guitar I still feel that playing Bach is like writing a good program - with the slightly difference that it happens in realtime :-). Which is also true when playing something from Randy Rhoads or Al Di Meola etc. Is there anyone feels the same? da5id I decided to be happy, it is excellent for one's health. (Voltaire)
agreed :) but id replace Bach with Mr.John Petrucci
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
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agreed :) but id replace Bach with Mr.John Petrucci
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.passion != Programming)I once saw a video where he showed some patterns, how to play them etc. He played 6 notes per click in 176 which... is quite impossible when you want to do something beside playing guitar. I do not have eight hours a day just to improve my technical skills. (that's something which sucks...the day should have 48 hours to do all the stuff) Yes, he's a really good one.
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I once saw a video where he showed some patterns, how to play them etc. He played 6 notes per click in 176 which... is quite impossible when you want to do something beside playing guitar. I do not have eight hours a day just to improve my technical skills. (that's something which sucks...the day should have 48 hours to do all the stuff) Yes, he's a really good one.
agreed! i believe your talking about "John Petrucci's Rock Discipline", its really helpful, even if you dont have 8 hours a day to jam :)
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
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agreed! i believe your talking about "John Petrucci's Rock Discipline", its really helpful, even if you dont have 8 hours a day to jam :)
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
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:doh: Okay.... what ever floats your boat
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
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agreed! i believe your talking about "John Petrucci's Rock Discipline", its really helpful, even if you dont have 8 hours a day to jam :)
Harvey Saayman - South Africa Junior Developer .Net, C#, SQL
you.suck = (you.passion != Programming)certainly it is helpful. This is a combination of motivation because it sounds and looks great when he's playing and totally frustration because you know you'll never be that good as he. I then think normally of some words of Eric Clapton: "It doesn't matter how fast you play, but what you feel when you play".
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I started programming with 12 on the good old C64. Started then playing guitar with 17, now having more than 20 years of programming and nearly 20 of playing guitar I still feel that playing Bach is like writing a good program - with the slightly difference that it happens in realtime :-). Which is also true when playing something from Randy Rhoads or Al Di Meola etc. Is there anyone feels the same? da5id I decided to be happy, it is excellent for one's health. (Voltaire)
I used to play classical guitar and I must agree Bach wrote, some of the hardest, and most enjoyable music to play on guitar - and yes programming can be an art form.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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I used to play classical guitar and I must agree Bach wrote, some of the hardest, and most enjoyable music to play on guitar - and yes programming can be an art form.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
That's it. Some of the pieces of Bach cannot be topped in their beauty (and even in their complexity) regardless if they some kind of mathematical/ logical or not. Another one who wrote really impressive pieces is Paganini. Incredible hard to play. Especially the ones for violin. What I meant was - it's some kind of very similar thoughts - playing guitar and writing a program is close together. On the other hand, if any team would work like musicians have to do when they play together (and really want the piece of music to sound like something special), I am sure, software would have another level of quality.