I Learned More Guitar in 6 Months at Church Than 15 Years in My Bedroom
For fifteen years I played guitar in my bedroom. Noodling. Learning the opening riff of songs and never finishing them. Playing the same power chords I learned in 2005. I owned nice gear. I watched YouTube tutorials. I told people I played guitar, which was technically true in the same way someone who owns running shoes is technically a runner. Then I started playing at church and everything changed. In six months I learned more than the previous fifteen years combined. Not because church music is particularly complex (it is not) but because I finally had something I never had before: a reason to actually get better.