Drawing, painting good means you can be a better player??

[Music_for_life]

Sometimes this are things our granny said...It`s a fact or far from true??
I am very bad at drawing and have bad pulse while trying to be very tidy when writing letters, but I can play...
Share your experience, do you think it matters??

[HeadyVan Halen]

Have a bad pulse? What is that?

Anyhow, I can't draw a comma or a semi-colon.
And paint? A house maybe. A picture? Never.

But I can bench press 345. Does that count for anything?

[Blacksack]

last time my gran came out with a saying like that we put her in a home

[Music_for_life]

I meant that sometimes people think that if a kid is good at hand craft and using there hands for other arts he also has a gift for playing an instrument of more ease for that..It is only what I`ve heard people said sometime..

[Music_for_life]

Originally Posted by HeadyVan Halen

Have a bad pulse? What is that?

Anyhow, I can't draw a comma or a semi-colon.
And paint? A house maybe. A picture? Never.

But I can bench press 345. Does that count for anything?

I was refering to free handed drawing, my english is not so good

[C.Linton]

I see absolutely no correlation between drawing or painting well to being a good musician. The two have completely different skill sets involved.

[thudfromafar]

I disagree that there is no correlation. But it is possible to be great at one or the other.

[chadds]

Reading and delving into areas of creativity other than music brings freshness to your music.

[tkcthulu]

Ask Stuart Sutcliffe, the original bassist for the Beatles

[Music_for_life]

I don`t know, I thought having a good hand for doing art crafts or painting means having more ability for using your hands when playing an instrument

[GianGian]

I see no relation. I can't draw to save my life either. Have you ever seen John Lennon's drawings? They were far from great, and we all know the great composer that he was.

[Deathblade Eric]

Originally Posted by Music_for_life

I don`t know, I thought having a good hand for doing art crafts or painting means having more ability for using your hands when playing an instrument

That means you have good eye-brain-hand co-ordination (which is useful), but the "best" players have superb ear-brain-hand co-ordination.

Think of Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Art Tatum & Jeff Healey. Compare & contrast with Linda McCartney.

[JonathanD]

I'm sure there are relationships between drawing and writing with regard to visual/spacial organization, creativity, patience, ability and desire to practice something.

[StefTD]

I am halfway good painter and graphic designer, but nobody is able to read when I write by hand
And I still suck at playing

A bit more serious now:
if you're good at painting or drawing, it just means (like Deathblade Eric said) that you have
a good eye-brain-hand coordniation, but that doesn't mean that you're going to play well.
My brother for example tried to learn bass a few years ago for months and he just didn't get it.
But he is an awesome (and I mean really awesome) artist, draws very realistic paintings and builds sculputres
that are so realistic that a few of them are presented in museums of natural science.
My old guitar player on the other side was one of the most gifted musicians I've ever met,
plays 6 instruments (sax,drums, bass, guitar, keys and cello) but if he starts to draw something
serious, it just looks like a 4 year old put his thumb into paint and tried something out

[JonathanD]

also maybe "Drawing and painting (well)" is a good idea.

[chadds]

It doesn't matter that you do other activities with great skill. It matters that you do many things even computer games, that can expand your mental, emotional and physical horizons and health.

[mpdd]

i don't think my pro art career is helping my amateur bass playing as far as i know