So you play an instrument and want to get yourself out there. When you play an instrument, decide to play in a band or go acoustic solo or whatever, all musicians pretty much want to think they’re so great. A lot of them like to pretend to be great and not be honest with themselves. Other music fans would go along with it and agree that they’re great ’cause they’re not musicians and don’t know anything about music. When an actual musician starts criticizing this other musician saying he/she is not really great that they think they are, other musicians can tell if they are great or not.

How can musicians tell if other musicians are not really that great? Well, if they are not playing in time, not playing in key, bad singing, playing sloppy, out of tune, etc. Yet, the musician they are criticizing will still think they are great no matter what is said about them.

For the past several years on my blogs, you can immediately tell I never had that kind of attitude. I’ve always admitted, I don’t play like a pro yet and still got a lot of work and plenty of learning to do. I’m always looking for ways to improve my playing and songwriting. I know I’m no music god, I’ve always been honest with my own talent. People accused me of having an ego problem and some out there think I’m a big shot musician. I hear some of them say, “This Brock think he’s a great musician, doesn’t he?” I never thought of myself that way.

I can’t even tell if I’m good or not, so I just play the music and let the people do the talking. If they want to call me a great musician, that’s fine. If they want to call me a crap musician, that’s fine too. There are actual musicians out there that think I’m good at what I do, and there are actual musicians out there, that think I suck. I love mixed opinions with my talent.

It is weird, the way people think of music.

Kev