{"id":14325,"date":"2020-03-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=14325"},"modified":"2020-03-10T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T14:01:42","slug":"pushing-though-the-resistance-a-trad-music-blog-by-alan-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/pushing-though-the-resistance-a-trad-music-blog-by-alan-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Though The Resistance – A Trad Music Blog by Alan Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m someone who still feels relatively new to the world of being a musician, so when it comes to writing a piece for a forum like this it can seem a little overwhelming. I can relate to many of the things that have been written about on here \u2013 feeling like an imposter; learning how to juggle different aspects of work; working out how best to define success. My route towards working in music full-time has been a roundabout one, and I\u2019m definitely still learning the ropes. Basically, I find that most days involve me having to push myself to do new things, which I\u2019m often reluctant to do (at least initially). There\u2019s a resistance that has to be worked against, whether internal or external. So I thought I\u2019d share some thoughts around that, in hopes that it might prove helpful to somebody reading.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a stammer, and it\u2019s one of the main reasons it\u2019s taken me the best part of thirty years to end up working in the area I think I\u2019m best suited to. When I was in primary school I would enter competitions such as the M\u00f2d for singing and playing the fiddle; the problem was, before I even got to singing or playing my piece, I was told I had to introduce myself and say what I was going to play first. I think this is somewhat standard practice for competitions \u2013 but I wouldn\u2019t know, because I haven\u2019t done any since! By the time I got my words out, I was in no state to perform, either shaking uncontrollably or having forgotten most of what I\u2019d practised. I enjoyed the music, but I just couldn\u2019t do the talking part.<\/p>\n

Read the whole blog (it is great!) here https:\/\/www.traditionalmusicforum.org\/blog-post\/?newsid=22191<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m someone who still feels relatively new to the world of being a musician, so when it comes to writing a piece for a forum like this it can seem a little overwhelming. I can relate to many of the things that have been written about on here \u2013 feeling like an imposter; learning how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-newsletter","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"simon","author_link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/author\/simon\/"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcv15g-3J3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14326,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325\/revisions\/14326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}