Creativity and Making_Richards

I watched a video called Guitar Moves with Keith Richards: “There’s Two Sides to Every Story”. Keith Richards is a famous guitar player, this interview covers how he learned how to play guitar and learned his own music style.

Before Richard starts off his story, he tells the person interviewing him that in order to become a great guitar player, one must start off with the acoustic guitar, so that the person gets a feel of playing the guitar, learns all the basics, and then afterwards can add in all the effects to the sound. I feel that this applies to a lot of other things, in art or science, since in order to truly understand one or more subjects, you need to learn the basics of it then build up from those to reach or make something new.

His story then starts off with him talking about his grandfather, who gave him his first guitar. His grandfather was a musician, who played a variety of instruments and loved his own work, so he was very skilled. Richards did not receive his first guitar easily, however. His grandfather told him that if he could reach for the guitar on the wall, he’ll let him play around with it. So Richards, being a kid and short at the time, took a chair and reached for and got the guitar from the wall, to which his grandfather decided to teach him a few chords and how to play the guitar. I feel that this part might have awakened the lesson that sometimes, you have to work for being able to start something, and keep working to finish it, that nothing you get skilled at can come easily to you. After all, you can’t improve on your own work or self without working for it.

This was an interesting watch, to learn how the guitarist for Rolling Stones became skilled and even influenced other musicians with his work, especially since he got some influence of his own.

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Class of 2021, graphic design major with an animation minor.

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