You learn by failing
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you're playing with a band, you've only been playing for the band for a couple months. This is part of this is how you learn by failing.
Episode 180: Serial Churn (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:57:08 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
After his daughter's new band had a rough gig, Dave told her that's part of it: she'd only been with the band a couple of months, and this is how you learn, by going out there and failing. Giving up control is part of what makes playing live exciting.
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Episode 220: Blame the Box! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:36:08 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
takes lots and lots of failure to realize, to automatically know when something is not going to work and you don't, don't try, don't try it this way.
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