I've been trying a lot of new things lately, violin-wise. Playing Tango, playing fiddle tunes, and learning to improvise. Tonight I rehearsed some Tango tunes with T. and was thinking I sounded pretty good, until she popped in a CD of Conjunto Berretin and I heard a really good violinist. But after the initial moment of "I suck", I reminded myself that:
- anything worth doing is worth doing badly at first
- you might as well just do what you want, because no one is going to hand it to you and you are in charge of your life.
Sherry has a post on just this subject tonight. Very timely.