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Worship Essentials #17 – Limit the Gear

OK,don’t get me wrong here. I am as much a fan of gear as the next person. I get all crazy when I walk into a store and smell a wall of high-end acoustic guitars. I could spend hours playing with the latest gadgets and such. I would love to have a collection of guitars, both rare and everyday. Throw in a home studio decked out with Pro-Tools and I am set. The truth of the matter is that too much gear IS a bad thing. Stay with me here.

I usually meet two kinds of musicians.

  1. The guy who can play like Clapton and Matthews. Unless this guy is on tours or a serious studio musician, he probably owns a few guitars and a few pieces of gear. He can make a $200 Yamaha acoustic sound like a presentation series Taylor. All talent, limited gear.
  2. Guy number two has way too much gear and way too little talent. You have met this guy. He has the latest and greatest. More guitars than your local Mom and Pop music store. Each one is high-end. The problem is that Mr. Guitar Man has spent most of his time figuring out how to max another credit card rather than spend the time on practicing his chops. We have all been this guy at one time or another. We fall into a trap of thinking that if we just had a little better rig, we would sound incredibly better. It’s a fantasy.

Each new piece of gear comes with two prices – the sticker price (in dollars) and what we will call the FT price. The Focus and Time price. The FT price is whatever the gear will cost you IN ADDITION to the cash. Consider adding the following to the cash:

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