What makes a musician a good musician?

Here is a list of habits that you should develop as a good musician. All these are important traits to have and if you can develop these characters in your personality it will stand good for a long time in your development.

Discipline: Discipline means how you set up your practice sessions and how committed you are to your planning. A good musician always follow their routine and make it a daily chore to practice their exercises and techniques. Discipline will keep you on your toes and push you to stretch your limits.

Patience: A good musician has patience. They don’t rush to achieve something and are calm about their progress and realistic about their goals. Good things always take time so make sure you do your basic right when you are polishing your techniques and skills.

Exploring different styles of music: Different style of music gives you different perspective about music in a whole. It widens your knowledge and allows you to understand information about the wide variety of music in the world. Different styles will teach you different techniques and different approaches toward making music.

Ear Training: A good musician always have an amazing hearing skills. At first, they will take the help of sheet music to learn things but eventually their main goal is to play just by hearing it. So, they listen to a lot of songs, dissect and explore them and reap a lot of benefits on the knowledge in terms of technique and skill. After years of training their ears, they can easily recognise pitch, melody and beats just by hearing it.

Attending shows: They attend as many shows as possible. These shows are great insight to understand where they have to work on and how to be unique in their sound. Also, it gives them an idea of how to be a competitive band in these tough music scene.

Not Skipping anything: A good musician never skips band practice or give excuses to not attend the practices as they are dedicated and committed to their playing. So never let your bandmate down!

Theory: All good musicians are good music readers, at least that’s what everybody thinks. However, there are musicians who are extremely talented, who can’t read music. They do it through sheer practice and that doesn’t make them bad musicians. But there are benefits of reading music too, for eg; when you play in a band or an orchestra, they are not going to teach you on the spot, rather they will tell you to read sheet music and play.

Communication: A good musician always communicate with other musicians and share ideas. They try to learn new things from all the musicians in the scene, ranging from local artists to taking inspiration from your idols. They always find a way to communicate with the musicians they get inspired from.

Motivates others: A good musician always motivates his peers and people around him that has the same interests in music. There is always a healthy competition where all musicians push each other and aim to get better every year. This is their way to spread their love for music. 

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