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Hi @the-old-coach , thanks for sharing your journey and experience. It has stated a super insightful conversation thread with some great ideas, thoughts and how others are making their journey. Like @albert_d I don’t have much to add here other than to share how I couple what TAC offers and reason I am here and playing.

I have been a guitar geek for quite a while. However – a self taught dabbler for sure. I came to TAC specifically to improve my understanding of the guitar as well as learn new technical skills. TAC turned out to be just the ticket plus more (the community, Acoustic Tuesday, learning from other TAC members, a pathway to finding the virtual open mics, etc)

The reason I want to into improve my understanding and technical skill is to better play and sing the music I love and speaks to me. My musical tastes are pretty wide and varied. The different skills and techniques presented in TAC are great. I also enjoy jamming with others and these skills help with that as well.

How I integrate my reason and the TAC process involves something you mentioned about combining your goals. I have 90 day goals related to TAC (implement guitar routine, show upshow up, do daily challenges) and then a personal goal or two (for example this 90 days included learning 4 flat picking songs from the song vault as well as learning the C,G and D major pentatonic scales up to the 5th fret). I document these in the Guitar Journal and have check in points.

Then I apply all the above playing the songs I love and want to learn (eg. How would that picking pattern sound, how can I work in that lick, etc)

Finally, I came to realize what has been said so we’ll by all the folks that have posted – and especially how @jumpinjeff shared – the journey for learning and improving guitar takes time, repetition, patience and persistence. Having really truly discovered that (like over the past couples months) I decided to just slot in and enjoy the process and the ride!

Well for not having much to offer I seem to have written quite a bit! 🤣

Thanks for sharing @the-old-coach !