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Jack Gardiner discusses the pressure young guitarists face to build their fan base immediately. He shares why he advises against this, emphasizing that true growth comes from years of practice and playing live, not from editing tricks to sound perfect online.

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00:00don't worry about growing an audience until the playing is there work on your craft and it'll
00:04come naturally don't be tempted to go down this extreme editing route because i had like a young
00:10student he was only 20 and he was like jack you're saying that you know i have to practice all
00:15of
00:15these things for years i have to spend eight hours a day going over some of this in uni they're
00:21telling me that i have to build my fan base now like i have to start posting now you know
00:27if we
00:27posted videos when we were first starting we wouldn't have those audiences kind of thing we
00:32would have just been another player they're gonna look at things like editing to go oh well if i do
00:38that then that sounds perfect so that will stand me out compared to the other guys and this is where
00:44the the problem snowballs and to develop as a guitar player literally takes years it's there are no
00:50shortcuts and practicing playing with other people live that's the big thing that doesn't happen now
00:55you know like it's it's all of these elements that go into making a well-rounded musician

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