In recent months, I have been blessed to be given the chance to play more with my guitar. It's amazing that what I have only dreamt of doing last year is coming came true now. I really owe to God who is my provider and Liping who is a constant support to me in every area of my life. In fact, I believe I owe it to Liping who always encourages me to play more and go beyond my comfort zone.
I've been going out to play some gigs on weddings and to some clubs to do some jamming (3sets of jamming whole night! hahaha). There are often humbling experiences as I found myself to be lacking in so many ways musically.
Most of the time, I'm faced with playing songs - jazz, oldies, pop - that I don't know. Everyone in the band seems to be able to pick up the tune on the spot or at least know the song.
Solo-ing over these songs is also a challenging matter. I guess in jazz one can 'hantam' and get by but I'm convinced that I should know how to hantam be it playing 'in' or 'out'.
Either way, I'm so challenged to keep pressing on for improvement.
The other thing that I realised right away about these musicans are that, generally, they are humble, approachable, friendly and helpful. I'm stereotyping but the greater players are more humble and more friendly. It really confirms what the bible teaches about humility and its relation to wisdom.
